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"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."

"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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"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."

"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."

"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."

"You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it."
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"With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption."

"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."

"The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts."

"We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist."

"Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process."

"The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers."

"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."

"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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