#lands

Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living. ↗

— John Agyekum Kufuor

#dubious #foreign #foreign lands #get #lands

People who take risks like Amy Winehouse and Norah Jones take a second to catch on, but eventually they do because they're different and honest in a musical landscape that's not always like that. ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#amy #because #catch #different #eventually

Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#america #babies #big #countries #eating

If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the "survival of the fittest?" ↗

— Josiah Strong

#america #amiss #any #beyond #central

There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#lands #limited #more #new #soon

I saw the sunset-colored sands, The Nile like flowing fire between, Where Rameses stares forth serene, And Ammon's heavy temple stands. I saw the rocks where long ago, Above the sea that cries and breaks, Swift Perseus with Medusa's snakes Set free the maiden white like snow. And many skies have covered me, And many winds have blown me forth, And I have loved the green, bright north, And I have loved the cold, sweet sea. But what to me are north and south, And what the lure of many lands, Since you have leaned to catch my hands And lay a kiss upon my mouth. ↗

— Sara Teasdale

#lands #loved #the-wanderer #love

Sometimes, when one is moving silently through such an utterly desolate landscape, an overwhelming hallucination can make one feel that oneself, as an individual human being, is slowly being unraveled. The surrounding space is so vast that it becomes increasingly difficult to keep a balanced grip on one's own being. The mind swells out to fill the entire landscape, becoming so diffuse in the process that one loses the ability to keep it fastened to the physical self. The sun would rise from the eastern horizon, and cut it's way across the empty sky, and sink below the western horizon. This was the only perceptible change in our surroundings. And in the movement of the sun, I felt something I hardly know how to name: some huge, cosmic love. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#desolation #hallucination #horizon #landscape #change

Patenting and purchase of lands are absolutely vital to the health of Nevada's rural communities. ↗

— Jim Gibbons

#communities #health #lands #nevada #purchase

The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows. But stories all... ↗

— William Joyce

#imagination #journeys #joy #lands #nicholas-st-north

It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries. ↗

— Nils-Axel Morner

#analysis #been #careful #centuries #changes