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  • We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.

    Brother   Moving   Night  
    Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”
  • Pebble is a piece of sacred ground. They say it's the greatest meeting of land and water in the world. This course was heaven designed - just the way it fits on the land.

    Golf   Land   Water  
  • Across the continent, on the shores of small tributaries, in the shadows of sacred mountains, on the vast expanse of the prairies, or in the safety of the woods, prayers are being repeated, as they have for thousands of years, and common people with uncommon courage and the whispers of their ancestors in their ears continue their struggles to protect the land and water and trees on which their very existence is based. And like small tributaries joining together to form a mighty river, their force and power grows.

    Prayer   Struggle   Years  
    Winona LaDuke (2002). “The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings”, p.64, Voyageur Press (MN)
  • In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources.

    Government   Land   Oil  
  • Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.

    Sleep   Power   Land  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.293
  • Not to wax nostalgic about the 1970s, but back then people got upset when they saw injustice. They got tired of seeing our air, land and water polluted. They were shocked when the Cuyahoga River in Ohio was polluted so badly it caught fire. And on one great day 20 million Americans marched all across this land. Politicians had no choice but to take notice.

    Tired   Fire   Air  
  • The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water.

    Distance   Land   America  
  • I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores Across the lands and waters he was battered beneath the violence of the high ones for the savage Juno's unforgetting anger.

    Fate   Journey   Men  
    Virgil, Barry Moser, Allen Mandelbaum (2007). “The Aeneid of Virgil: A Verse Translation”, p.1, Univ of California Press
  • The health of our waters is the principle measure of how we live on the land.

  • How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.

    Nature   Air   Land  
    Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”
  • Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air.

    Life   Simple   Air  
    Susan Sontag (1992). “The Volcano Lover”
  • True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive use of the wealthy. These land and water resources belong to the people, and people of all income levels should have easy access to them.

    Wise   Should Have   Land  
  • Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children's lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land.

  • And, just for good measure, here are a handful of runners up: For now the seventh summer carries you, A wanderer, across the lands and waters.

    Summer   Land   Water  
  • We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days.

    Wise   Thinking   Land  
  • I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature's wealth deep under the earth are protected as the rightful heritage of all the people.

    Memorable   Lakes   Land  
  • Land and water are not really separate things, but they are separate words, and we perceive through words.

  • This land is your land, this land is my land

    "This Land Is Your Land" (song) (1956)
  • The word was born in the blood, grew in the dark body, beating, and took flight through the lips and the mouth. Farther away and nearer still, still it came from dead fathers and from wondering races, from lands which had turned to stone, lands weary of their poor tribes, for when grief took to the roads the people set out and arrived and married new land and water to grow their words again. And so this is the inheritance; this is the wavelength which connects us with dead men and the dawning of new beings not yet come to light.

    Father   Grief   Dark  
    Pablo Neruda, Ilan Stavans, Robert Bly (2007). “I explain a few things: selected poems”, Farrar Straus & Giroux
  • Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.

    Food   Army   Agriculture  
    "Holistic Management: A New Framework for Decision Making". Book by Allan Savory and Jody Butterfield, 1999.
  • The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.

    Sea   Land   Long  
    Rachel Carson, Sue Hubbell (1998). “The Edge of the Sea”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources.

    Fighting   Land   Oil  
  • Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will commit to our descendants to work hard to protect this land and water for them. Whether you have feet, wings, fins, or roots, we are all in it together.

    Mother   Hard Work   Feet  
    "Honor the Earth: The Triple Crown of Pipeline Rides". Short documentary narrated by Winona LaDuke, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2013.
  • I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written on this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south.

    Stars   Moon   Land  
  • Forests are the lungs of our land.

    Land   Earth Day   Tree  
    Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.65, Best Books on
  • Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain.

    Rain   Power   Land  
  • To the lost man, to the pioneer penetrating a new country, to the naturalist who wishes to see the wild land at its wildest, the advice is always the same - follow a river. The river is the original forest highway. It is nature's own Wilderness Road.

    Country   Men   Land  
  • How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? ... The end of living and the beginning of survival.

    Military   Land   Sky  
  • The river moves from land to water to land, in and out of organisms, reminding us what native peoples have never forgotten: that you cannot separate the land from the water, or the people from the land.

    Rain   Moving   Lakes  
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