Land Quotes - Page 114

What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.

There is no birthright in the white skin that it shall say that wherever it goes, to any nation, amongst any people, there the people of the country shall give way before it, and those to whom the land belongs shall bow down and become its servants.

Let your heart travel lightly. Because what you bring with you becomes part of the landscape.

I'm really glad that Italy went out, they were playing boring football. (on Euro 2004)

The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard.

A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours on the back of the seat ahead. But seventy-some hours will not seem so long to you if you tell yourself first: This is where I am going to be for the rest of my natural life.

Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.

Backbite: To ''speak of a man as you find him'' when he can't find you.

And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.

People and land need healing which is all inclusive - holistic.

In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live.

There are many things in life more worthwhile than money. One is to be brought up in this our England which is still the envy of less happy lands.

A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how little he alludes to his own; ... This abnegation of his own opinion, and this implicit deference to the opinion of his forefathers, which are common to the English and American lawyer, this servitude of thought which he is obliged to profess, necessarily give him more timid habits and more conservative inclinations in England and America than in France.

The grace of God, says Luther, "is like a flying summer shower." It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had it, and lies barren and dry. These Asiatic coasts had it, and flung it away.

We are Scotland's independence generation. And our time is now

By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.

If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not.

The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.

I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever 'written'… It evolves in the minds of a thinking community.

I do not imply that this philosophy of land was always clear to me. It is rather the end result of a life journey.

The problem, then, is how to bring about a striving for harmony with land among a people many of whom have forgotten there is any such thing as land, among whom education and culture have become almost synonymous with landlessness. This is the problem of conservation education.

A land ethic...reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health of the land. Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal. Conservation is our effort to understand and preserve this capacity.

If many people follow your enthusiastic endeavours, perhaps a new Athens might be created in the land of the Franks, or rather a much better one.

Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.

In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.