Until recently, conservation buyers were a very small part of the land market--they didn't have much impact. But now there are over 1,500 land trusts operating in the United States, and together they can change land prices and patterns of development.
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Related Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. Th... JOE BACA Over 25 percent of Townsend land is zoned as open space, so business cannot go there. We have a smal... GREGORY BARNES The BLM feels very strongly that it's important to have a viable livestock industry operating in the... JIM HUGHES And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gig... GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE The wealth-income ratio in the United States has always been lower than in Europe. The main reason i... ROBERT SOLOW Cities around the United States do not have land use planning like we have in Oregon, and they are a... KATE BROWN Despite my great disappointment in American foreign policy, I am very proud of the American traditio... DOUGLAS TOMPKINS They should have enough land to build the headquarters where it is now with what land they have now. DERRICK HARRIS We have many conservation (trusts) that are operating exactly as they should be. JANE HENDRON There will always be people who will accept you for what you are! SAKURA TSUKUBA Land trusts are good at integrating biological, recreational and other considerations in setting pri... GRETCHEN DAILY America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE We are going on faith that we will have the land, and our building, within the next few months - eve... BOB MILLER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. ALDO LEOPOLD The route pretty much exists. It's a combination of land and water routes. The land routes, for the ... WILLIAM SHARP On this land, Muslims, Christians and Jews can coexist together, as they have - as they had for the ... HASSAN NASRALLAH A land ethic, then, reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in turn reflects a ... ALDO LEOPOLD Particles of the allergen -- in this particular case, peanuts -- are small enough to actually float ... DAVID TANNER The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled cr... JOSEPH CONRAD Texas was mostly short-grass and tall-grass prairie when modern Europeans arrived here. It really wa... PHILIPP MEYER You don't like her??? She's beautiful and rich... and got huge...... tracks of land! MONTY PYTHON While trusts have been previously used in the establishment of wine land community development proje... BEVERLY FARMER We're talking about annexing all this land. It has potential to impact the development. MARK WASSERMAN Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have... HERBERT CROLY They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. SIR FRANCIS BACON They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea. FRANCIS BACON They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. FRANCIS BACON As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and ou... HOWARD DEAN We'll have an acre of land where we can have a vintage market. ANN MOORE I have been given a list of 35 white farmers in Mashonaland West alone. We say no to whites owning o... ROBERT MUGABE Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost al... E. O. WILSON A lot of young people feel that they are not part of society, they do not have access to land, educa... EDWARD WINTER Over land we see tremendous diurnal changes, a strong peak in lightning in the afternoon over land. ... HUGH CHRISTIAN What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to k... SHIMON PERES What's the difference between rain and grain? Only a g, though they both grow in the land, and they ... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES There is a very strong public perception that an unregulated ownership of land, such as housing by f... JOE MATTHEWS We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the p... ROGER MAHONY The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did... JARED DIAMOND I don't know how they will get these companies to invest millions into these projects unless they ar... MARC FALCONE That's how they became city centers. Both of them can accommodate new commercial and residential dev... CHRIS JONES So much of the land is already publicly-owned, ... so there's very limited opportunity to build on r... JAMES HUGHES Superstition Vistas sits out there vacant, not because there aren't buyers for it, but because we ca... MARK WINKLEMAN We?re lucky that the York Water District leases us about 6.5 acres of land up there. That?s how we w... KAREN MCELMURRY The problem, then, is how to bring about a striving for harmony with land among a people many of who... ALDO LEOPOLD They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain ... CHARLES FRAZIER Everybody must be focused on cultivating their own land of promise SUNDAY ADELAJA Every human being must cultivate their own land of promise SUNDAY ADELAJA Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light. DAVE EGGERS I know that sometimes these friends feel that they have been expelled from the ordinary world they l... ANNE LAMOTT Highways are huge. Not only for the amount of land covered by highways but also with the associated ... CHRIS SERVHEEN Our clients are everyday folks. We don't represent big corporations; we represent the husband and wi... DAVE HUNNICUTT It's fairly straightforward economics for the most part. The sale of textbooks overseas, while small... ADAM GABER They had all this hype, 11 defensive starters returning this year, and all their papers said they ha... JARED NEPA Let's face it, a lot of rich people in China aren't there because of ability. They got there because... HOWARD SNYDER After the Jews crossed the sea and the desert, they reached the Promised Land. Scouts were sent to l... CELSO CUKIERKORN Anyone can have a once-upon-a-time or a happily-ever-after, but it's the journey between that makes ... CHRIS COLFER But anyone can write, right?'" Conner asked. "I mean, that's why authors get judged so harshly, isn'... CHRIS COLFER Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thi... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE These are original monuments. They are two hundred years old. They are very historically significant... MIKE MITCHELL The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessenti... A. N. WILSON Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our father... BIBLE Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that do... DOUGLAS TOMPKINS Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first co... WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER The market has shifted. Instead of land prices tending to push upward, more than likely, they're fla... BRAD HUNTER It brings the value of your farm a lot higher, so the banks are happy -- they know they can go out a... ALLAN PARKER I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea... ALAN BENNETT Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of choles... ALLAN SHERMAN They will be able to freely invest in assets like property and land, excluding agricultural land. RAJEEV SHAHARE Should we call her?Maybe we should give her a RING to see where she is? Get it? Get it? -... CHRIS COLFER They touched down very gently. They were very close to empty (on fuel). They had to land today. Ther... DON CAMERON for Congress and states to say maybe there are areas of coastal land where we simply shouldn't build... LARRY LARSON There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imm... SARAH JOSEPHA HALE I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me,... PETER SHAFFER They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea. FRANCIS BACON The United States consumes power per land-area at a rate three times the average. Even though they a... DAVID J. C. MACKAY And if we are honest we have to make a distinction between a democratic Israel that wants to live in... J. D. HAYWORTH The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did... JARED DIAMOND No more building permits until they get the permanent land use plan is in effect. BILL BOWEN They may have had strong bonds to the land, but Irish peasants were among the most inefficient farme... DAVID HOLMES No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly. MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS They don't own fishing boats or land but often work as workers on others' land. KAREN KAYSER People basically want to protect their family land for the future. Basically, they love their land a... BRYAN PIERCE There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, th... THORNTON WILDER There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, th... THORNTON WILDER There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the ... THORNTON WILDER If I can turn the most powerful part of the world into a land of wisdom and compassion, it's goi... CHADE-MENG TAN Zionists believe they are entitled by God to the land, groves and homes of the non-Jewish underclass... LEE WHITNUM The Bureau of Land Management has essentially become the bureau of oil and gas development. DAVE ALBERSWERTH It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose co... ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE [In the green scheme of things, death becomes a vehicle for land conservation and saving the planet.... THOMAS LYNCH China's major trading partners are the United States, the euro land, Japan, Korea, etc., and natural... ZHOU XIAOCHUAN Having to land in a bad place. That can happen when there is no wind and your gas starts to run out.... BERTRAND PICCARD While the birds still thrive on large, intensively managed quail plantations in north Florida, their... BILL GIULIANO We brought everybody to the table and found the one thing we all agreed on is land conservation in t... GEORGE COFER Nobody bought land around RFK. Everybody bought land around [the stadium site] in Southeast. The sta... JEFF NEAL Every day there are land mines. There are economic numbers, warnings. The market feels very heavy. W... BOB BASEL Land ownership in Guatemala is more unequal than anywhere else in Latin America. Roughly 90 percent ... STEPHEN KINZER As far as the facility, they have more grass at Bowie because we're land-locked over here. There's m... BOBBY ALVAREZ The land was ours before we were the land s. She was our land more than a hundred years before we we... ROBERT FROST
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GRETCHEN RUBIN I cling to the hope that with more and more women in the workplace, we can teach younger generations... GRETCHEN CARLSON My parents raised me with a never-give-up attitude, telling me I could be anything I wanted to be. I... GRETCHEN CARLSON When people watch me on TV, they see part of my life. I wanted to let them know the real me behind t... GRETCHEN CARLSON I'm a huge believer in visualizing achieving the task before it happens. GRETCHEN CARLSON Sometimes when women come forward about sexual harassment, they're seen as a troublemaker. GRETCHEN CARLSON I just like Raisin Bran - it keeps me regular. GRETCHEN WILSON