789 Quotes About Land


  • Author Alexis de Tocqueville
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    So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me.

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  • Author Bayard Taylor
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    When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire. And burns in meadow-grass the phlox His torch of purple fire: And when the punctual May arrives, With cowslip-garland on her brow, We know what once she gave our lives, And cannot give us now!

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  • Author Bruce Thompson
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    It's not like they want to do this on virgin conservation land. This land was violated in 1952 when the parking lot was paved.

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  • Author Frederick Jackson Turner
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    Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West. The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development.

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  • Author G. M. Trevelyan
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    There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right.

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  • Author Henry David Thoreau
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    All that is told of the sea has a fabulous sound to an inhabitant of the land and all its products have a certain fabulous quality, as if they belonged to another planet.

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