Famous quotes containing the words land and/or border:
“I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes, hills and streams and plains; the mountains over our land and natures wealth deep under the earth, are protected as the rightful heritage of all the people.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (18821945)
“For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a world into which I make occasional and transient forays only, and my patriotism and allegiance to the state into whose territories I seem to retreat are those of a moss-trooper.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)