Land Quotes

Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head.

This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.

Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone.

The most beauteous land, that awoke no memory of great events, were uninteresting, compared with every spot that history sanctifies.
[Alternate translation:]The most beautiful landscapes in the world, if they evoke no memory, if they bear no trace of a remarkable event, are uninteresting compared to historic landscapes.[Les plus belles contrées du monde, quand elles ne retracent aucun souvenir, quand elles ne portent l’empreinte d’aucun événement remarquable, sont dépourvues d’intérêt, en comparaison des pays historiques.]

Sure, cried the tenant men, but it’s our land. We measured it and broke it up. We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it’s no good, it’s still ours. That’s what makes it ours – being born on it, working it, dying on it. That makes ownership, not a paper with numbers on it.