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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees. -- Earl Warren
My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres. -- Doc Severinsen
You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.' -- Earl Nightingale
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground. -- Alexander Pope
Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands. -- Mortimer Zuckerman
We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up. -- Bruce Babbitt
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same. -- Thomas Paine
It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on our forests, big kill, and we have these catastrophic situations take place when we are not able to take action. -- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products? -- Jeremy Rifkin
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
Maybe you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a deed to 635 million acres of public lands. That's right. Even if you don't own a house or the latest computer on the market, you own Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and many other natural treasures. -- John Garamendi
We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch. -- Tanya Tucker
I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood. -- Penelope Spheeris
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. -- Red Auerbach
Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop. -- David F. Houston
It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette. -- Betty Buckley
My husband is from Florence. And he has a 15th-century barn that is completely rustic and very 'Green Acres'-like. -- Debi Mazar
Come with me to the Winged Isle- Northern father's Western child Where the Dance of Ages is playing still through far marches of Acres Wild. -- Ian Anderson
The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis -- Henry Mayhew
I spent five and a half years in prison. The worst part was coming home and finding out Green Acres had been cancelled. What the hell was I fighting for? -- John McCain
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
A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert. -- Denis Kearney
My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness. -- Rene Auberjonois
SoHo was called Hell's Hundred Acres because it was full of sweatshops - without fire escapes. Completely not up to code. Every once in a while, these buildings would burn and 26 Puerto Ricans would be killed. -- Carl Andre
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
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation. -- Seneca the Elder
With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for our larger restoration efforts and for the people of Florida. This too will not come without difficult challenges, but it reminds us that anything is possible. -- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
One time we did have 300 acres in watermelons. That was fun. -- Delta Burke
My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees! -- Carre Otis
A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect. -- William Petty
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
When Woodstock ended on Monday morning, over 600 acres of garbage was left behind on Max Yasgur's farm. It took over 400 volunteers and $100,000 to remove it all. -- Shawn Amos
We're setting up an urban farm for kids on more than 20 acres in New Orleans. We want to make this a world-class educational center for the community. -- Emeril Lagasse
I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil. -- Eartha Kitt
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate. -- Jack London
I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres. -- Felix Dennis
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I'm in this absolutely gorgeous manor house with acres of quite beautiful countryside. I've got trout in the river, an organic vegetable garden, I've got my work 40 yards from my home. I don't mind being criticised, but where are they criticising from? Which hut are they criticising me from, exactly? -- Jay Kay
I go on a hunting safari at least once a year to Botswana, which is fantastic because we have a huge area of wilderness entirely to ourselves. My island covers roughly 55 acres, which again I have to myself, with nearly half a kilometre of private beach with my own jetties and boats. -- Wilbur Smith
Before you rip off three feet of toilet paper, consider that each year 500,000 acres of virgin boreal forest in northern Alberta and Ontario are being clear-cut to make the stuff. These forests are home to some 500 First Nation communities, as well as caribou and bears, moose and wolves, and, in the summertime, billions of songbirds. -- Alex Shoumatoff
It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the way we did before 9/11, and then looking at 9/11 and saying, 'This is not a criminal act,' not when you destroy 16 acres of Manhattan, kill 3,000 Americans, blow a big hole in the Pentagon. That's an act of war. -- Dick Cheney
When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad out, and then in order to feed us five kids, she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food. We milked a cow, raised chickens, pigs and beef cattle. We heated our one-story house with wood and stayed cold all winter. -- Bonnie Jo Campbell
He had acres of time there. -- Ron Atkinson
In my spare time, I smoke acres of weed. -- Kevin Smith
And even our present acres of death will someday bloom again... -- Alfred Rosenberg
And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres. -- Charles Evers
There are acres of diamonds in the problem you have before you right now. -- Brian Tracy
If I could afford it, I'd buy 1,000 acres and put my house right dead-center. -- Mark Fuhrman
A lot of people don't know, but New Jersey has, like, 700,000 acres of farmland. -- Charlie Puth
The cartoon absolutely captures something that acres and acres of copy can't. And even photographs can't. -- Julia Gillard
The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers. -- Keith Preston
For the few little successes I may seem to have, there are acres of misgivings and self-doubt. -- Sylvia Plath
Congo is one of the least-developed countries in the world, and has millions of acres of virtually untouched forest. -- Anderson Cooper
Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests. -- Earl Warren
Being out here in the country and having acres of land, you can go outside naked if you want. -- Matt Hardy
When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard. -- Randy Houser
Happy the man, whose wish and careA few paternal acres bound,Content to breathe his native airIn his own ground. -- Alexander Pope
What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand? -- Horace
In Africa, you can make three acres sustainable relatively easily, but 50,000 acres? It's not about picking up towels or sleeping in a tent. -- Jochen Zeitz
I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without going broke. -- Victor Davis Hanson
When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land. -- John Stuart Mill
I have no fancy living at all. Well, I have a house in Sun Valley. Five acres in the woods. I guess that's fancy. -- B. Wayne Hughes
My wife's father said if you marry my daughter I'll give you three acres and a cow. I'm still waiting for the three acres. -- Max Miller
The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth. -- John Lancaster Spalding
What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres. -- George Eliot
A generous donor (who had no doubt lived a life that imperiled his mortal soul) had granted [the Sisters] more than one hundred waterfront acres. -- Kristin Hannah
No one in the United States has the right to own millions of acres of American land, I don't care how they came by it. -- Edna Ferber
To look out of a car in Scania, you see a painting on the horizontal - one windmill, one tiny farmhouse, acres of beet or grass. -- Kenneth Branagh
If everyone agreed to become vegetarian, leaving little or nothing for livestock, the present 1.4 billion hectares of arable land (3.5 billion acres) would support about 10 billion people, -- E. O. Wilson
I mean you ACRES of harm,' Dalrymple growled. 'Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTINENT of harm upon you before we are through. -- Derek Landy
The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect as his farm does loads of muck. -- Henry David Thoreau
My husband and I are building a 'green' house in Santa Ynez Valley. We bought 15 acres and we're going to build a house that's green from the ground up. -- Jennie Garth
The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis. -- Henry Mayhew
Texas is just so rich with characters. Women who live alone in a little house on a thousand acres with nothing but cattle and a pickup truck. And an airplane. -- Sissy Spacek
Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own team his paternal acres, freed from all thought of usury. -- Horace
But Maine is a special place: there's something about untold acres of natural beauty in concert with an underachieving public school system that leads to deviations from the customary and commonsensical. -- William Giraldi
In Utah alone, ten million acres are open for business. Their policy is not about the public or the public's best interest. It is about the oil and gas corporations' best interests. -- Terry Tempest Williams
One of these poems I wrote after having been here only a month. The other, I wrote this morning. In the space between the two poems, I have found acres of grace -- Elizabeth Gilbert
I didn't grow up on the porch of a cabin looking out over the 90 acres that the mule was plowing with Paw-Paw playing the banjo. But I was always interested in folk music. -- Ketch Secor
It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with. -- Peter Sarsgaard
Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much? Have you practis'd so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems? -- Walt Whitman
A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden. -- Alexander Hamilton
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

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