#land

If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them. ↗

— David Ricardo

#cultivation #gradually #import #lands #left

Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent. ↗

— David Ricardo

#belonging #cultivation #equal #land #ordinary

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions. ↗

— Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

#good #her #home #new #new england

Our volunteer fire departments know their needs better than Washington, D.C. They need more flexibility on spending grant money from FEMA and Homeland Security. ↗

— Mike Ross

#departments #fema #fire #flexibility #grant

The only way an Iraqi biological agent would kill you is if it landed on your head. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#biological #head #iraqi #kill #landed

I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York. ↗

— Geraldo Rivera

#better #fabled #fabulous #father #hip

Boy George is all England needs - another queen who can't dress. ↗

— Joan Rivers

#boy #boy george #dress #england #george

I felt alone out there, like I was on a desert island. I felt like Gilligan. ↗

— Mickey Rivers

#desert #desert island #felt #i #island

Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother. ↗

— Boyle Roche

#embrace #england #i #ireland #like

Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat. ↗

— Alexandra Paul

#cows #eat #efficient way #enough #get