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"If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?"
"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."
"The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand."
"While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk."
"The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one."
"In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms."
"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."
"I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult."
"Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent."
Explore more quotes by Arthur Erickson
"You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film."
"The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning."
"We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist."
"No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems."
"We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."
"With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption."
"The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers."
"Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive."
"Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over."
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