Famous quotes containing the words land and/or mines:
“Stretch out your hand toward heaven so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness that can be felt.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 10:21.
“The humblest observer who goes to the mines sees and says that gold-digging is of the character of a lottery; the gold thus obtained is not the same thing with the wages of honest toil. But, practically, he forgets what he has seen, for he has seen only the fact, not the principle, and goes into trade there, that is, buys a ticket in what commonly proves another lottery, where the fact is not so obvious.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)