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Arthur Erickson

"Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land."

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Amber Hurdle

"Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else."

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"The ranch was raw land when I bought it and, for better or worse, I have designed every aspect of it from the corrals, the arena, to the barn, to the house."

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"When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere."

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"Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all."

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"They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him."

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Amber Hurdle

"Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls."

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"Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes."

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"When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system."

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"The sea has now changed from it's natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land."

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"You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it."

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"The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself."
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"God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit."
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