What is likely to vanish – or be transformed beyond recognition – are many of the things we think of when we think of Australia: the barrier reef, the koalas, the sense of the country as a land of almost limitless natural resources. – Jeff Goodell
There’s been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land. – Miranda Lambert
‘West To A Land Of Plenty’ shows a family heading west, first on board a train, and then going into areas as yet untamed by rail by way of an ox-drawn wagon. – Jim Murphy
What I find curious is that I ever became a writer at all. I grew up in the South Bronx, the land of poverty and petty hoodlums. – Jerome Charyn
Without the shepherd’s dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence. – James Hogg
The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land. – John Jakes
I take a lot of satisfaction in trying to make my land as self-contained as possible, its own little mini environment. Minimal outputs; minimal inputs. – John Grogan
The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the land and grain are the next; the sovereign is the least. – Mencius
Tyria’s a big world. We get a grand tour in ‘Ghosts of Ascalon.’ We’re in Divinity’s Reach, we’re in Lion’s Arch, we’re in Ebonhawke, we’re in the Dragon’s Land, we’re in Ascalon. We’re basically hitting a lot of the major human and charr locations. – Jeff Grubb
Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died. – Junipero Serra
We see evidence that lakes and forests and wetlands can have different equilibria – so you have a savanna system that may be stable and thriving, but it can also tip over and become an arid steppe if pushed too far by warming, land degradation, and biodiversity loss. – Johan Rockstrom
There are lots of brownfield sites in Stoke, but they are not suitable for building executive homes. It needs to be surrounded by fields. It needs to be on greenbelt land. That’s what executives want. – John Caudwell
Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles. – Lucretius
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. – Junipero Serra
India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions. – Kailash Satyarthi
I wander around, get the lay of the land and try to imagine what kind of people would have lived there in that historical period. What would they eat? What kind of clothing would they wear? How did they shelter themselves? How did they get around? – James Welch
Being on the stage is the one place I don’t get nervous. Before the show is another story, but once I’m up there, and the first chord hits, I go to this other place. It’s like a dream land. – Maren Morris
My government will make efforts to realize the farming potential of rain-fed and dry land areas by ensuring healthy participation by all stakeholders and convergence of various government sponsored programs. – Pratibha Patil
True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement. – Robert Mugabe
Texas was mostly short-grass and tall-grass prairie when modern Europeans arrived here. It really was a land of milk and honey. But when they brought all these cattle onto these relatively small bits of land, and the cattle were allowed to graze freely, they essentially destroyed the prairie. – Philipp Meyer
The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital investment here. – Richard Leakey
I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I’d set out a Coke can and stand back 20 feet and use my telescope to watch wasps land on it. – Paul McEuen
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
I will live in TV Land watching ‘Columbo.’ I also like my ‘Forensic Files,’ all of that true crime. – Octavia Spencer