There will, however, be no one in need among you, because the LORD is sure to bless you in the land that the LORD your God is givi...ng you as a possession to occupy, if only you will obey the LORD your God by diligently observing this entire commandment that I command you today.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with a terrifying display of power, and with signs an...d wonders; and he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These are the Gardens of the Desert, these The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful,... And fresh as the young earth, ere man had sinned--LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it--for a little ...while.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre ...wastes. It was from facing this vast hardness that the boy's mouth had become so bitter; because he felt that men were too weak to make any mark here, that the land wanted to be let alone, to preserve its own fierce strength, its peculiar, savage kind of beauty, its uninterrupted mournfulness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sky was as full of motion and change as the desert beneath it was monotonous and still,--and there was so much sky, more than ...at sea, more than anywhere else in the world. The plain was there, under one's feet, but what one saw when one looked about was that brilliant blue world of stinging air and moving cloud. Even the mountains were mere ant-hills under it. Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky. The landscape one longed for when one was away, the thing all about one, the world one actually lived in, was the sky, the sky!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This mesa plain had an appearance of great antiquity, and of incompleteness; as if, with all the materials for world-making assemb...led, the Creator had desisted, gone away and left everything on the point of being brought together, on the eve of being arranged into mountain, plain, plateau. The country was still waiting to be made into a landscape.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out... in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The world there was the flat world of the ancients; to the east, a cornfield that stretched to daybreak; to the west, a corral tha...t reached to the sunset; between, the conquests of peace, dearer-bought than those of war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »