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To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.
-Leonard Cohen
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Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
-Joseph Conrad
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The land was ours before we were the land s. She was our land more than a hundred years before we were her people.
-Robert Frost
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The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for him. He does not even take the trouble to spend his wealth. He has a host of people around him to do the actual spending. He never sees it until he comes to enjoy it. His sole function, his chief pride, is the stately consumption of wealth produced by others.
-David Lloyd George
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Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
-Karl Marx
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You are the land. The land is you.
-Merlin
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Topographically the country is magnificent -- and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
-Henry Miller
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Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for -- worth dying for.
-Margaret Mitchell
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With one hand he put a penny in the urn of poverty, and with the other took a shilling out.
-Robert Pollok
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O lands! O all so dear to me -- what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.
-Walt Whitman
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Books about Land
