Land State Provincial

Famous quotes containing the words land, state and/or provincial:

“He was buried in a valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth-peor, but no one knows his burial place to this day.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 34:6.

“The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as steadily and with as pure a flame on the obscure provincial altar as in Numa’s temple at Rome.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)