"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."

Land, Nothing, Sea

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"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."

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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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"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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"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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"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."

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