Quotes About Public Lands

#1. A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.

Edward Abbey

#2. Cattle grazing on public lands is heavily subsidized by the federal government, so yes, all of us taxpayers are helping to pay for tremendous environmental degradation.

Mary Ellen Hannibal

#3. Teapot Dome involved the conservation of the oil resources of the United States, especially those situated upon the public lands.

George William Norris

#4. Our public lands - whether a national park or monument, wildlife refuge, forest or prairie - make each one of us land-rich. It is our inheritance as citizens of a country called America.

Terry Tempest Williams

#5. Because the public lands belong to all Americans, this 1872 Mining Act should be repealed ...

Richard M. Nixon

#6. They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.

Denis Kearney

#7. The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.

James Monroe

#8. In my 31 years in Congress, I have seen a lot of changes. We made some substantial policy changes that have improved our parks system and our public lands.

Ralph Regula

#9. My work at R.E.I. was incredibly fulfilling and rewarding, especially the stewardship elements of it, the ability to connect young people to public lands close to home.

Sally Jewell

#10. [The public lands represent] in a sense, the breathing space of the nation.

Richard M. Nixon

#11. The silken rush of woodland waters and the scoured shapes of the desert - these and countless other treasures we owe to those farsighted enough to have preserved the public lands that make up our inheritance.

T. H. Watkins

#12. I'm excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests. We really need the public's help to repair these heavily used recreation sites.

Robert Towne

#13. If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower.'

Jeff Goodell

#14. Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.

Barbara Boxer

#15. Our institutions and agencies are no longer working for us. It is time to reimagine the wilderness movement as a movement of direct action, time to reimagine our public lands as sanctuaries, refuges, and sacred lands. Time to rethink what is acceptable and what is not.

Terry Tempest Williams

#16. Fossil fuel corporations are supposed to pay the government fair market royalties in exchange for the right to drill on public lands or in federal waters.

Bernie Sanders

#17. The difference between a good defensive team and a bad defensive team is as little as three possessions

Brad Stevens

#18. Whether or not I can get an interview from hip-hop media, that's not going to effect whether or not I can go on tour in Asia and Europe and see all of these different places and experiences.

Le1f

#19. The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing.

Mitch Daniels

#20. She was smart enough to be cynical yet had nothing to be cynical about. Her

Kodi Scheer

#21. It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands.

Ariel Sharon

#22. I didn't really understand what you did when you went in front of the camera. And then suddenly I just understood it. When you're in a play, you carry the story, but you don't have to do that in film.

Lars Mikkelsen

#23. Prayer is - not just bowing your head a few times a day, it pervades all of life.

Philip Yancey

#24. Kind of prayer we here speak of as properly "monastic" (though it may also fit into the life of any lay person who is attracted to it) is a prayer of silence, simplicity, contemplative and meditative unity, a deep personal integration in an attentive, watchful listening of "the heart.

Thomas Merton