libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of travelling to distant lands
No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.
The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands.
Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light.
It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountain top and pointed the way to the Promised Land. Yes we can!
The crew of the caravel "Nina" also saw signs of land, and a small branch covered with berries. Everyone breathed afresh and rejoiced at these signs.
America. . the international Jekyll and Hyde. . . the land of a thousand disguises, sneaks up on you but rarely surprises
The Palestinians have no other land. They are absolutely right about this. The Israeli Jews also have no other land and they are absolutely right about this. It is a tragedy of two peoples claiming the same very small country - very small, about the size of New Jersey. And both of them are right. Both of them have no other homeland as peoples. As individuals, maybe, but not as a people.
If people lose their land, they have nothing. You lose your land - you lose your culture, you lose self.
Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.
I thought if I was going to live a life in this land I was accidentally born on, I must people it; I must have a history. . . . I'm looking for these people inside me, wherever they may be; that is my form of research.
