"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."

Land, Mystery, Plants, Sea

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"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."

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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."

Janine Turner, American Actress

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"Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt."

Bruce Babbitt, American Politician

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"I stepped on a land mine named Jayson Blair."

Howell Raines, American Editor

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"You are the land. The land is you."

Merlin Olsen, American Athlete

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"Without that sense of security which property gives, the land would still be uncultivated."

Francois Quesnay, French Economist

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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."

Jack Cade, English Activist

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"Down in the south, it's how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing, and that's what I've done."

John Prescott, British Politician

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"I approached Red Square three times, trying to find somewhere to land, before discovering a wide bridge nearby. I landed there and taxied into Red Square."

Mathias Rust, German Celebrity

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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."

Robert McAfee Brown, American Theologian

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"Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise."

Herbert Croly, American Author

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"A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion."

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"We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain."

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"No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force."

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"One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels."

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"Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft."

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"A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them."

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"Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves."

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"Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world."

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"There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness."

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"Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities."

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