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Junipero Serra

"Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died."

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"Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died."

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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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"This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young."

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"The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes."

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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."

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"Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged."

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"There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers."

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"This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land."

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"To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships."

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"I will burn your city, your land, your self."

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"We found on our journey, as well as in the place where we stopped, that they treated us with as much confidence and good-will as if they had known us all their lives."
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"We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds, and by fishing."
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"We found vines of a large size, and in some cases quite loaded with grapes; we also found an abundance of roses, which appeared to be like those of Castile."
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"The tract through which we passed is generally very good land, with plenty of water; and there, as well as here, the country is neither rocky nor overrun with brush-wood."
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"Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died."
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"Father Fernando did every thing in his power to assist the sick; and although he arrived much reduced in flesh, he did not become ill, and is now well."
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"As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary."
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"Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous."
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"The people got daily worse from the cold and the bad water, and they must all have perished if they had not discovered the port about the time they did."
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