789 Quotes About Land

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all.

So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff.

O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water" (Psalm 63:1). We may imagine we want a thousand different things, but God is the one we really long for. His presence brings satisfaction; his absence brings thirst and longing.

All land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty.

I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.

It's just a matter of searching the land to find the pieces remaining.

I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations.

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.