Our fate is so unhappy, our land is so unhappy. The girl is crying, the sister is crying, the wife is crying, the children are crying.
If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
—Voltaire
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral… Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That’s my idea.
—Nikolai Gogol
America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World’s History shall reveal itself.
—Georg Hegel
When rich speculators prosper While farmers lose their land; when government officials spend money on weapons instead of cures;
—Laozi
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
—Henry David Thoreau
Under the sword lifted high, There is hell making you tremble. But go ahead, And you have the land of bliss.
—Miyamoto Musashi
Apply yourself both now and in the next life.
Without effort, you cannot be prosperous.
Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
—Plato
When an eagle is happy in an iron cage,
when a sheep is happy in water,
when an owl is happy in the blaze of the noonday sun,
when a fish is happy on dry land;
then, and not till then, will I admit that
an unholy man could be happy in Heaven.
J.C. Ryle
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
—Nikolai Gogol