literary work

Territory

short story by David Leavitt

Notable quotes

“We are the land, and the land is mother to us all.”
— Paula Gunn Allen, Chapter Two. Luther Standing Bear expressed a similar sentiment: "We are of the soil and the soil is of us."
“Look at the legacy of poor Eve's exile from Eden: the land shows the bruises of an abusive relationship. It’s not just land that is broken, but more importantly, our relationship to land.”
— Robin Wall Kimmerer,
“If we allow traditions to die, relationships to fade, the land will suffer.”
— Robin Wall Kimmerer,
“If one cousin buys land, the other cousin gets a stomachache.”
— Korean proverb, as quoted in "Stressed and Depressed, Koreans Avoid Therapy" (6 July 2011), by Mark McDonald, The New York Times, New York
“The land and all it contains, without which labor cannot be exerted, belong to no one man, but to all alike.”
— Lucy Parsons, The Principles of Anarchism, lecture printed without date of publication sometime in the 1890s
“La tierra es de quien la trabaja con sus manos.”
— The land belongs to those who work it with their hands.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.