151 Quotes About Acres

  • Author David Bernstein
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    Will they be bad owners? Will they simply flip this property over to developers? ... One hundred and twenty-seven acres in the center of Pinellas County is worth a fortune.

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  • Author Don Briggs
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    In downtown Manhattan, maybe five acres would be worth that much. But down here, it's a bunch of marshland.

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  • Author Donald Bren
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    My ultimate dream is for the Irvine Ranch to be known and celebrated as much for the outstanding communities we've planned and built as it is for what is not developed. The beneficiary being the 50,000 acres of undeveloped land that is now permanently preserved and conserved as Open Space and parklands.

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  • Author Donald Bren
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    When I first joined the Irvine Company, I realized that less than 11,000 acres were designated as open space in the original master plan, and that just didn't seem adequate to me. So, I began the lengthy process working with public and community organizations to add more open space.

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  • Author Ed Brown
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    Our crews have responded to over 4,900 fires and we had somewhere around 100,000 acres of forest land burned in the state.

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  • Author Frances Beinecke
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    The San Gabriel Mountains rise like a rampart at the edge of the city, safeguarding more than 500,000 acres of mature forests, mountain streams, dramatic waterfalls, and towering peaks that reach over 9,000 feet. These untamed places attract bighorn sheep, mountain lions, and other threatened or endangered species.

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  • Author Kenneth Branagh
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    To look out of a car in Scania, you see a painting on the horizontal - one windmill, one tiny farmhouse, acres of beet or grass.

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  • Author Lee Bottensek
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    Back in the 1960s, one of the members bought some land there and wanted to sell 10 acres to the club for a clubhouse and shelter, and so it came about.

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