Famous Quotes & Sayings

I killed my first mule at 10. Plowed him to death. The sad part is, after the mule died, I had an acre and a half to do, and I had to pull the plow my own self.

David Williams

Eight hundred acres is my office. I feel much more fortunate that I have a job that lets me do that. It makes me appreciate that I have an opportunity to work in this environment.

The biggest thing for me is preserving the habitat. An estimated 2,500 acres a day (nationwide) is lost to malls and subdivision. We are trying to preserve some place for the wild animals to call home.

Carroll Shelby

I've got cattle on 4,000 acres about 100 miles east of Dallas, but I've also got another 65-acre ranch where I raise American miniature horses.

It took out a good 8 acres of trees.

They were more worried about how many houses they can get on an acre than the people who live here.

Shane Smith

We're talking about six acres with mature trees. You just can't buy trees like that. The city is basically getting a multimillion-dollar chunk of land returned to it.

We're talking about a smaller city, but a safer and hopefully more sustainable one, ... The alternative is to continue as we are, losing 60 acres (of wetlands) a day. By 2090, New Orleans would be exposed to the open sea, with no protection at all.

Bill Gross

We've been completing about 300 to 400 acres a day, which is actually a lot.

Joel Salatin

We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system.

When the depression hit, he bought land for 50 cents an acre and cows for $1 each from his neighbors who couldn't make it.

We've owned a lot of land down there for many years. We had 12,000 acres. Now, we're adding 6,000 acres together.

Both performed well, in terms of angler trips per acre and angler trips per trout.

When you get more acres in a day, it's a bad day when you're harvesting, ... You want to be dumping as much as you can.

There are 45 parks in Wyandotte County, ranging from 1,500 acres to the tiny St. John's Park on Third Street and Armstrong.

The other good thing about this is that (the project) is not on that 5- or 10-acre spacing like the Jonah Field ... We're talking 160 or 320 acres spacing, which is a lot more spread out.

This was born out of necessity, ... We wanted to have a certain size property and we only had so much land to work with. We realized we had to put the parking underground, so we came up with a plan and put it in place. When you look at the cost of an acre of land on the Strip, you need to make your best usage of that land.

When Beverly and I got together in 1992, and I moved to be with her in the little round house she'd built in the middle of 20 acres of woods near Amity, I found myself immersed in a natural setting that I responded to with all my being.

Benjamin Percy

I grew up in western Oregon, just outside Eugene, on 27 wooded acres that served as my playground.

I have no fancy living at all. Well, I have a house in Sun Valley. Five acres in the woods. I guess that's fancy.

We asked these questions: What does 'obtain' mean? Are they trying to buy it or exercise the power of eminent domain? They didn't tell us whatever they were trying to do. What is the time limit? I wanted to know if they're taking 22.8 acres, which acres ? in the front, back, middle?

We have about two million acres here that are potential agriculture and they're going out of business. This is gonna revive those.

Our agency is the largest agriculture water retailer in San Diego County. We have about 23,000 or 24,000 acres of agricultural land, so while we have enough storage to serve our domestic customers for 10 days, we don't have enough storage to accommodate our agricultural customers during the shutdown.

Originally, we had about 275 acres in this farm. The state took 13 acres of the land to build the highway. We didn't like it to begin with.

The ones who are in favor of the nomination live near the 50 acres of forest we want to preserve. The majority of people who are opposed to it say they think this type of mid-rise condos is out of keeping with the rest of the development in the area.

One acre of land anyway it would be several thousand dollars ... depending on the crop. Land agents will personally visit every landowner with a package of information about the project, discuss it with the landowner and follow up at a future date, likely sometime in 2006.

Thanks to the cooperation of Mr. Moore and Vital Ground, Montana will leverage the value of their easement to provide about $600,000 in federal funds that we will use to conserve other important forestlands in the Swan Valley. This project will add another 180 acres to a program that has helped conserve wildlife habitat and working forests on nearly 155,000 acres in Montana in the last five years.

Larry Klayman

The state overreached. They wanted the other 5.7 acres and they coerced my client, Mr. Hering, into selling it to them by saying that he wasn't going to get a right-of-way to get to those acres.

Back in the 1960s, one of the members bought some land there and wanted to sell 10 acres to the club for a clubhouse and shelter, and so it came about.

They told us they had parking issues and we said we had 5.5 acres they were welcome to use to solve their problem. We were more than happy to help out the fair.

Brian Thompson

This is one of the strongest auctions we've seen. It sold in the top end of the trading range for Class A (the most productive) soils. There is a good supply of Class A land that typically sells for $4,100 to $6,000 per acre depending on size, location and quality.

John Grant

The University is very concerned about the possibility of fire on our campus. We have hundreds of acres of land that are extremely dry due to the recent drought. Even areas that are usually somewhat wet (like Groundhog Park) are in a very dry and fire prone condition right now.

There weren't a whole lot of folks who wanted it. Now it's our opportunity to add 3 acres to the park.