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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.

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Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

by Aldo Leopold Found in: Land Quotes,
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America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The read more

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.

by William S. Burroughs Found in: Land Quotes,
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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; read more

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.

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All the territorial possessions of all the political
establishments in the earth--including America, of course--
consist of pilferings from read more

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.

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Lanscape shapes culture.

Lanscape shapes culture.

by Terry Tempest Williams Found in: Land Quotes,
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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 read more

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 . . .

by Ambrose Bierce Found in: Land Quotes,
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I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it.

I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it.

by Joan Didion Found in: Land Quotes,
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For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land?

For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land?

by Claude Brown Found in: Land Quotes,
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There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the read more

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.

by Harriet Martineau Found in: Land Quotes,
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