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Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Land and water are not really separate things, but they are separate words, and we perceive through words. -- David Wallace
Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air. -- Susan Sontag
And, just for good measure, here are a handful of runners up: For now the seventh summer carries you, A wanderer, across the lands and waters. -- Virgil
In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources. -- Ron Kind
The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water. -- Rachel Carson
We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Pebble is a piece of sacred ground. They say it's the greatest meeting of land and water in the world. This course was heaven designed - just the way it fits on the land. -- Johnny Miller
True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive use of the wealthy. These land and water resources belong to the people, and people of all income levels should have easy access to them. -- George Aiken
Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy. -- Allan Savory
I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores Across the lands and waters he was battered beneath the violence of the high ones for the savage Juno's unforgetting anger. -- Virgil
When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources. -- Wangari Maathai
The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written on this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south. -- Christopher Columbus
Not to wax nostalgic about the 1970s, but back then people got upset when they saw injustice. They got tired of seeing our air, land and water polluted. They were shocked when the Cuyahoga River in Ohio was polluted so badly it caught fire. And on one great day 20 million Americans marched all across this land. Politicians had no choice but to take notice. -- John F. Kerry
This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young. -- Paul Tsongas
Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will commit to our descendants to work hard to protect this land and water for them. Whether you have feet, wings, fins, or roots, we are all in it together. -- Winona LaDuke
Water is the true wealth in a dry land. -- Wallace Stegner
If Jesus can walk on water, can he swim on land? -- Bo Burnham
The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land. -- Jeremy Collier
Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water. -- Bashar al-Assad
The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land. -- Victor Hugo
I believe in animal rights, human rights, land rights, water rights, air rights. -- Rod Coronado
"Do not fear! Heaven is as near," He said, "by water as by land!" -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is a strange paradox: Humans drown in the water, fish drown in the land. -- Javad Alizadeh
Water. Oil pales beside it, and the value of the land itself is measured by it. -- Larry J. McKinney
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Wherever we've travelled in this great land of ours, we've found that people everywhere are about 90% water. -- David Letterman
Our military should be trained and structured around missions, not the elements of air, water, and land. -- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
Our military should be trained and structured around missions, not the elements of air, water, and land. -- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
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For the water animals, the ocean is like a garden; for the land animals, it is death and pain. -- Rumi
All action is prayer. All trees are desire-fulfilli ng. All water is the Ganga. All land is Varanasi. Love everything. -- Neem Karoli Baba
The new earth will be like Eden. ..the deserts will gush with water. ... A beautiful and bountiful land will flourish. -- Paul P. Enns
Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help. -- Gordon Sinclair
Our lifestyle, our wildlife, our land and our water remain critical to our definition of Wyoming and to our economic future. -- Dave Freudenthal
Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water. -- Anna Letitia Barbauld
What we often fail to recognize is how efficient a vegan diet is. Less land, less water, more food for our spiraling population. -- Ed Begley, Jr.
If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you. -- Bruce Lee
We do not fully understand the consequences of rising populations and increasing energy consumption on the interwoven fabric of atmosphere, water, land and life. -- Martin Rees
Putting isn't golf, greens should be treated almost the same as water hazards: you land on them, then add two strokes to your score. -- Chi Chi Rodriguez
President Obama believes that we have a moral obligation to the next generation to leave our land, water, and wildlife better than we found it, -- Sally Jewell
later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land. -- Jimmy Buffett
This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture. -- Horace
For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water. -- Chief Joseph
My mom and my dad taught me the greatest gifts we have are our family, our health and the right to clean water and good land. -- Erin Brockovich
It's time to respect the treaties our ancestors signed and care for our land, water, and cultures so that they remain healthy for our future generations. -- Winona LaDuke
My first introduction to New Orleans was from the air, flying high over the city with a view of the land - and water - below. -- Rachel Sklar
I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water. -- Jonathan Swift
There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea. -- Herman Melville
We have been getting rich by depleting all our natural stocks - water, hydrocarbons, forests, rivers, fish and arable land - and not by generating renewable flows. -- Joseph J. Romm
Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks. -- William Shakespeare
The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or) society ... any more than the air or water. -- Abraham Lincoln
In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms. -- Felix Marti-Ibanez
If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal. -- Ingrid Newkirk

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