789 Quotes About Land

When we destroy the fertile lands, we destroy our own good life!

Your little eco-friendly fairy tale ain’t going to happen. This was farming land long before it was cute-house land.

Buried, five at a time,pine boxes, Rinehart & Dennis paid him $55a head for burying these men in plain pine boxes.His mother is suing him: misuse of land.

These people came into the world and left it bound to their soil, proliferating on their own dung-hills with slow deliberation like the uncomplicated soul of trees which scatter their seed about their feet, with little conception of any larger world beyond the dun rocks among which they vegetated.

Even so, the land felt like it still does today—it filled the hollow in a satisfying way.

Nector [speaking to Bernadette] could have told her, having drunk down the words of Nanapush, that comfort is not security and money in the hand disappears. He could have told her that only the land matters and never to let go of the papers, the titles, the tracks of the words, all those things that his ancestors never understood how the vital relationship to the dirt and grass under their feet.

We owe it to the fields that our houses will not be the inferiors of the virgin land they have replaced. We owe it to the worms and the trees that the building we cover them with will stand as promises of the highest and most intelligent kinds of happiness.

ATOP THE STORK PAVILION LOOKOUTFrom the pavilion one sees the sun setting behind the mountains,Unrelentingly toward the sea the Yellow River flows;In order to see thousands of miles further afield,To a higher level one must go.

The land's fruitfulness is the "natural" consequence of covenant faithfulness enacted on both sides, Israel's and God's. A productive land is a gift something like a child to a healthy marriage; in each case, thriving results from and witnesses to long-sustained faithfulness between two partners.