quotes about Acres
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And even our present acres of death will someday bloom again...
-- Alfred Rosenberg -
It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.
-- Betty Buckley -
We'll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
-- Bob Goff -
It had been this way since my beginning, born on a forest lookout station in the High Sierras, surrounded by millions of acres of wilderness and many more animals than humans. Since infancy, the first faces I imprinted, the first faces I ever really loved, were animal.
-- Brenda PetersonSource : Brenda Peterson (2002). “Build Me an Ark: A Life with Animals”, p.35, W. W. Norton & Company
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There are acres of diamonds in the problem you have before you right now.
-- Brian Tracy -
We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.
-- Bruce BabbittSource : Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. January 5, 2001.
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All the lights on Broadway don't amount to an acre of green.
-- Buffy Sainte-MarieSource : Song: I'm Gonna Be A Country Girl Again
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It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on our forests, big kill, and we have these catastrophic situations take place when we are not able to take action.
-- Cathy McMorris Rodgers -
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It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
-- Charles Darwin -
Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.
-- David F. Houston -
My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres.
-- Doc Severinsen -
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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
-- Earl Warren -
We live in our own souls as in an unmapped region, a few acres of which we have cleared for our habitation; while of the nature of those nearest us we know but the boundaries that march with ours.
-- Edith Wharton -
No one in the United States has the right to own millions of acres of American land, I don't care how they came by it.
-- Edna Ferber -
The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth.
-- John Lancaster Spalding -
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If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do 'll make him feel rich.
-- John Steinbeck -
The cartoon absolutely captures something that acres and acres of copy can't. And even photographs can't.
-- Julia Gillard -
The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers.
-- Keith Preston -
If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback.
-- Otis Redding -
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I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood.
-- Penelope Spheeris -
It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with.
-- Peter Sarsgaard -
Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.
-- Ralph MerkleSource : "Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future". Interview with John Gehl, ubiquity.acm.org. July 2000.
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It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly.
-- Ralph MerkleSource : "Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future". Interview with John Gehl, ubiquity.acm.org. July 1 - July 31, 2000.
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When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.
-- Randy Houser -
The flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea at Acre is not similar to the flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea in Spain.
-- Rashi -
We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.
-- Tanya Tucker -
Everybody can identify with somebody in the Hundred Acre Wood.
-- Jim Cummings -
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There is broad scientiï¬c consensus that genetically engineered crops currently on the market are safe to eat. After 14 years of cultivation and a cumulative total of 2 billion acres planted, no adverse health or environmental effects have resulted from commercialization of genetically engineered crops.
-- Pamela Ronald -
I don't really feel pressure. I'm so distracted by what we're doing; I'm doing this four-acre project, it's just absorbing all my attention. Before you know it we're onto the next project, and so on and so forth.
-- Tavares Strachan -
Hemp is Earth's number-one biomass resource; it is capable of producing 10 tons per acre in four months.
-- Jack Herer -
The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. One transformed millions of acres of uncultivated land into fertile farms, while the other furnished the transportation which carried the crops to distant markets.
-- John MoodySource : John Moody (2013). “The Railroad Builders (Volume 38 Chronicles of America)”, CreateSpace
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A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.
-- William PettySource : Sir William Petty (1769). “Tracts, Chiefly Relating to Ireland: Containing: 1. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions. II. Essays in Political Arithmetic. III. The Political Anatomy of Ireland”, p.219