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Urbanization has relied on land conversion and land financing, which is causing urban sprawl and, on occasion, ghost towns and waste.
While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.
We may believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us.
The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool.
The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development.
The land is ours. I will do everything in my power, forever, to fight against a Palestinian state being founded in the Land of Israel.
If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal representation.
I don't think there's going to be peace as long as Israel is occupying land that belongs to the Palestinians, to Lebanon and to Syria.
I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it.
The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours.
The brutal history of colonialism is one in which white people literally stole land and people for their own gain and material wealth.
Hunting is a family thing for me, and it's a Texas thing. We have a lot of land in Texas that's been in our family for 12 generations.
At this point, a spaceship could land on Main Street and Elvis could saunter out singing "Love Me Tender," and I wouldn't be surprised
Said of her husband on the day their divorce became final: Oh, don't worry about Alan. . . . Alan will always land on somebody's feet.
But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land.
When someone deeply listens to you, your barefeet are on the earth, and a beloved land that seemed distant, is now at home within you.
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land.
I repeat my demand that the occupier leave the land of our beloved Iraq unconditionally, without retaining bases or signing agreements.
Weak faith will as surely land the Christian in heaven as strong faith, for it is impossible the least dram of true grace should perish
For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.
Oompa-Loompa Land?” He shook his head. “No way. Orange people give me the creeps. I don’t even like fake tans. I’d never be their king.
According to Eshin's Essentials of Salvation, the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of the Pure Land.
The choices and decisions we make in terms of how we use the land ultimately affect our very DNA. Environmental issues are life issues.
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake.
When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.
Faith is like stepping off a cliff and expecting one of two outcomes- you will either land on solid ground or you will be taught to fly.
Shall we upon the footing of our land Send fair-play orders, and make compromise, Insinuation, parley, and base truce, To arms invasive?
If you watch 'E.T.' and say that there are holes in the story because this alien lands, then don't go to the movie! It drives me insane.
[On her Freedom Farm Cooperative:] If you give a hungry man food, he will eat it. [But] if you give him land, he will grow his own food.
You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything.
The first condition a community should set, if it aspires to be a nation, is to own the land whereon it lives, and supply its own needs.
As a colored woman I might enter Washington any night, stranger in a strange land, and walk miles without finding a place to lay my head
I think it's very sad, when Barack Obama lands in Saudi Arabia, and he lands in Cuba, and there aren't high officials to even greet him.
Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land,' in most instances they're not even law.
All of the younger actors keep coming up to me and asking me where all of the land mines are because they know I've stepped on them all.
The doctrines which the Jews had been spreading throughout the land for years could not but have helped to undermine the Church's power.
TNC was once limited by the resources it could directly marshal to buy land. But teaching people a new idea is incredibly more scalable.
Artificial manures lead inevitably to artificial nutrition, artificial food, artificial animals and finally to artificial men and women.
The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I not attain highest perfect enlightenment.
Merrily, merrily, listen to me, Flitting and flying from tree to tree. Nothing fear I, by land or sea, For God in Heaven is watching me.
There is no justice, no law, and no God in heaven, only a single law which decides and supersedes all-[Jewish] settlement [of the land].
Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.
A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.
I am not one of those who left the land to the mercy of its enemies. Their flattery leaves me cold, my songs are not for them to praise.
When you are risen on the eastern horizon You have filled every land with your beauty... Though you are far away, your rays are on Earth.