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One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.
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The map is not the territory.
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All the territorial possessions of all the political
establishments in the earth--including America, of course--
consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe,
howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies
a foot of land that was not stolen.
Author: Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
Source: Following the Equator
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For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land?
Author: Claude Brown
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You are the land. The land is you.
Author: Merlin
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A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
Author: George William Curtis
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America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.
Author: William S. Burroughs
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Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
Author: Aldo Leopold
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If a man owns land, the land owns him.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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LAND, n. A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society . . .
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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When people lose their ties to the land they grow corrupt. Inevitably, they grow corrupt.
Author: Ruth Almog
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There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.
Author: Harriet Martineau
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My own recipe for world peace is a little bit of land for everyone.
Author: Gladys Taber
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Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from the mighty peaks to the smalles of the tiny flowers hidden in the meadow's grass.
Author: Alexandria David-neel
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Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
Author: Maria Edgeworth
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I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it.
Author: Joan Didion
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Lanscape shapes culture.
Author: Terry Tempest Williams
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Maka le wakan -- the land is sacred. These words are at the core of our being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take away our land and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies. We'd become just suntanned white men, the jetsam snd floatsam of your great melting pot.
Author: Mary Brave Bird
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