Famous quotes containing the words land, state and/or provincial:
“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)
“Thus we steadily worship Mammon, both school and state and church, and on the seventh day curse God with a tintamar from one end of the Union to the other.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadnt developed space travel were mere prehistoryhorse-shoe crabs of the cosmic sceneand something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
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