#land

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#come #feature #feet #grown #hands

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#home #land #life #like #outside

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#beyond #both #concerned #design #garden

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#copied #england #states #straight #united

The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#because #best #community #comparisons #countries

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#centuries #exploration #good #immense #landscape

There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed, and these will hit farming communities and the health of crop lands. ↗

— Peter Garrett

#already #associated #both #communities #crop

If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture. ↗

— Bill Gates

#agriculture #competing #energy #energy production #first-class

No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#city #coast #got #gulf #lands

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#consequence #cruelty #foe #friend #her