Acre quotes:

Send

Everybody can identify with somebody in the Hundred Acre Wood. -- Jim Cummings
I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls, The burial-ground God's-Acre. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Winnie the Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood are among the most entertaining and beloved characters ever animated by Disney. -- John Lasseter
I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just; It consecrates each grave within its walls, And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea at Acre is not similar to the flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea in Spain. -- Rashi
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. -- Red Auerbach
An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay
We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system. -- Joel Salatin
Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop. -- David F. Houston
I live up at about the 2000 feet level on a five acre piece of forest that I built a small house on. -- Terence McKenna
I'm for conservation, but it's mostly a con. That's the trouble. It's sentimental. Buy an elephant a drink, a lion an acre. -- Peter Beard
I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land. -- Pawan Kalyan
I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind. -- Annie Dillard
I'm up at 5:30 or 6, but not willingly. By 8:30, I'm in my home office. I take a swim in the afternoon, and I garden. We have about an acre of land. -- Robert Silverberg
Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat. -- Alexandra Paul
Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production. -- Ralph Merkle
Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on. -- Robert Grosseteste
It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly. -- Ralph Merkle
The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is broken down by soil bacteria into nitrate, a toxic and highly soluble chemical that can leach into groundwater or get washed into lakes, creating oxygenless dead zones. -- Alex Shoumatoff
If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over. -- Robert Grosseteste
Apart from the most obvious cases, like the Oriental Bittersweet vine, escaped from private gardens and smothering the mountains one acre at a time, the most painful proof of man's destruction is not what you can see right in front of you; it's what you will never see again. -- Wil S. Hylton
Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it. -- Samuel Beckett
We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch. -- Tanya Tucker
An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay
All the lights on Broadway don't amount to an acre of green. -- Buffy Sainte-Marie
We'll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre. -- Bob Goff
Because people are afraid of fear, they give up acre after acre of their own life. -- Peter McWilliams
Hemp is Earth's number-one biomass resource; it is capable of producing 10 tons per acre in four months. -- Jack Herer
I was in Australia....Lotta leg room down under. Apartments: dollar a month. 2000-acre den....think of the parties. -- Bill Hicks
What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker? -- Rudyard Kipling
Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present? -- Chuck Palahniuk
Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower. -- Tom Robbins
I've got cattle on 4,000 acres about 100 miles east of Dallas, but I've also got another 65-acre ranch where I raise American miniature horses. -- Carroll Shelby
An acre of the best ground for hemp, is to be selected and sewn in hemp and be kept for a permanent hemp patch. -- Thomas Jefferson
Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel. -- Franz Grillparzer
Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger. -- Rita Mae Brown
My father was a prosperous hatter-farmer - making hats for the local markets during the winter months, tilling his little ten-acre farm during the summer time. -- Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Gramercy Park is a four-acre square given in perpetuity to the residents surrounding it, 170 years ago, by Samuel Ruggles, a real estate developer of immoderate means. -- Bill Buford
Martha Stewart is now under house arrest. So she'll go to her $40 million 153-acre estate. So she's going from the big house to an even bigger house. -- Jay Leno
An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year - which is far more than the value of the land's crop of corn or wheat. -- Denis Hayes
Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon. -- Guy Davenport
It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching. -- Charles Darwin

Send