Acres Quotations

The San Gabriel Mountains rise like a rampart at the edge of the city, safeguarding more than 500,000 acres of mature forests, mountain streams, dramatic waterfalls, and towering peaks that reach over 9,000 feet. These untamed places attract bighorn sheep, mountain lions, and other threatened or endangered species.

Folks are always talking about 40 acres and a mule, but what we need is some psychoanalysis. Forget 40 acres in a mule: sign all of us up for some shrinks so we can get ourselves right by reflecting and truly learning ourselves.

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.

Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'

It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with.

A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.

It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly.

It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on our forests, big kill, and we have these catastrophic situations take place when we are not able to take action.

Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.

One time we did have 300 acres in watermelons. That was fun.

We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.

I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood.

It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.

Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on.

We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.

On my reservation, we had one of the most abundant fisheries in the world and hundreds of thousands of acres of wild rice beds. We've lost a lot of it, but there's still natural wealth that could support our communities.

I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.

To look out of a car in Scania, you see a painting on the horizontal - one windmill, one tiny farmhouse, acres of beet or grass.

The potential to lose half in 2007 and another 800,000 acres the following year is a tremendous impact to natural resource opportunities in the state.

We are pleased that we obtained a rig and drilled this initial well with no problems. Should this well be productive in commercial quantities, we will exercise our option to obtain a 100% working interest in approximately 7,600 acres in this prospect.

We bought 1.64 acres of some stuff that was dear to us, ... We just thought it was in the best interest to preserve it, and the price seemed good.

Years ago a town would have, on average, 20 acres annexed in a given year. Last year alone 120 acres were annexed. The rate is happening faster and the parcels that are going are bigger. Which I don't think bodes well for the town.

With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for our larger restoration efforts and for the people of Florida. This too will not come without difficult challenges, but it reminds us that anything is possible.

With the number of labor-intensive acres going up in California, their behavior does not seem to suggest that they see a labor shortage, even if that's what they tell reporters. Farmers always think there's not enough labor. It's a very unpredictable business. You can't control the weather. The one thing you can push for is a lax immigration program, or a guest-worker program.

All the lights on Broadway don't amount to an acre of green.

With those temperatures, there's no wide-spread damage across large acres of groves, but there's potentially spotty damage in the hours that temperatures are in the mid-20s. There certainly is a risk of damage later this week.

It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.

We live in our own souls as in an unmapped region, a few acres of which we have cleared for our habitation; while of the nature of those nearest us we know but the boundaries that march with ours.

Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.

No one in the United States has the right to own millions of acres of American land, I don't care how they came by it.

When I was 11, I burned a field down by mistake. It was an empty field, probably about 10 acres in size. Me and my friend were lighting firecrackers, and we ended up burning down the entire field. We got found out, and I think I was grounded for about three months.

An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year - which is far more than the value of the land's crop of corn or wheat.

Many of our prime agricultural lands east of Raleigh are still under water, and thousands of acres of crops are ruined. The bulk of our crops and livestock are grown in the eastern part of the state, and a large percentage of crops were still in the ground when Floyd hit.

September 11, bad as it was, was confined to just sixteen acres in New York but the devastation here is right across the entire region.

She was living at the old house with the Guild family members (when the armed services held) maneuvers behind Rose Mont. They owned about 300-400 acres there. George Patton and Omar Bradley were there. George Patton asked her if she would do some laundry for him, and he didn't like something she did, and she just told him what she thought. She was a very strong willed person.

So many users were turned off by the price. When we returned with volume, we literally left acres of tomatoes in the field.

One of our roles at the Forestry Commission is to provide Georgia landowners with high-quality, accurate and timely timber price information. Georgia has 24.3 million acres of forestland available for commercial use and timber is the highest valued vegetative crop in the state. Since timber prices vary across the state, Forest2Market had divided Georgia into three primary timber pricing regions. Forest2Market's report will serve as a valuable tool to help Georgia's Forest Products Industry compete in the global market. We are pleased to provide a timber market report specific to Georgia.

No prime agricultural land will be provided for setting up industries. As the demand (of Salim Group) is 5,000 acres some small plots of agricultural land could come in that. The farmers, whose land is acquired would be properly compensated.

Now try to separate that in your mind from a person who owns hundreds of acres of land, and is now extending a water main through that tract, and still hasn't really thought out exactly the project he's going to build. Why would the extension of that utility vest development rights at that time?

Right now in California we gain 40,000 new acres of desert every year, with all the building and the people coming in... housing going up like crazy.

People with 20 acres of lava and sagebrush have been stuck.

Plymouth has 62,000 acres of land, of which 26,000 acres are tax exempt. Creating a more diverse tax base really was a factor in this decision.

My ultimate dream is for the Irvine Ranch to be known and celebrated as much for the outstanding communities we've planned and built as it is for what is not developed. The beneficiary being the 50,000 acres of undeveloped land that is now permanently preserved and conserved as Open Space and parklands.

One thing that has changed is the price of land. You try to go out and buy some farmland, and no one's wanting to sell the little tracts of 80 or 100 acres that people have always wanted.

On Sept. 8, I opened the gates and drained it for 45 days. We got it down to three acres of surface water.

I grow 10 heirloom varieties in my garden, but I get mine locally from Green Acres on Route 51 near Elizabeth. I just wish they had full slices of bread here so I could have a few tomato sandwiches and really enjoy the day.

If this provision became law, it could literally lead to the privatization of millions of acres of public land, including national park and national forest land.

If we commented on every single one of them, you'd think we were building everywhere. That (Green Acres proposal) may very well be going on, but we don't comment until arrangements are final.

I am fortunate enough to have two and a quarter acres and a great housekeeper and houseman. Also, my home is large.

I live in the middle of the mountains in Aspen Colorado, I have the tractor on my ranch. Right out my door is thousands of acres of national forest.

If it was a five-acre parcel, I think I would be very hesitant to try to build mid-range housing product in that location, but the fact that it's 50 acres means you can really create an environment that changes the character of the entire area. I think that's really the key to making this successful, because otherwise you're in kind of a sea of lower-income rental housing.

He had about 100 acres of the land listed for sale, but nobody wanted it because Fishers was too far out in the country.

We're proposing a very simple LNG import terminal. We have an option on an 80-acre (32.4-hectare) piece of land but we would probably use only about 35 acres (14 hectares). We would keep a lot of trees in the front.

Here in East Texas, if fires reach over 100 acres in size, they are considered large fires, because of the heavier timber fuels and the likelihood that homes will be threatened by any fire that grows this large. A 4,000-acre fire is a huge fire in this region.

Going from an agricultural zoning of a minimum 10 acres to one acre lots is a huge change. It's more in the best interest of the developer; it's not in the best interest of the community.

History has shown that the Legislature has never done that. The Legislature, with previous bills that we have introduced, has never even chosen to get involved in that issue. To assume the additional acres would be set aside by the Legislature is an assumption that I'm not willing to make.

We may have our family feuds, but at least this is our 6.6 acres of God's green earth. Let us decide, not someone else.

It can grow two, three, four times what it is presently. This fire is not over. It is out of control. If it's 300,000 acres now, it's only going to get bigger.

It is a 200-acre-plus site, and the casino might be two to three acres of that.

It is possible that the grove acreage (in Florida) could be down to about 548,000 acres at the end of 2009.

I watched it grow in the 1980s and 1990s, and 500 to 1,000 acres of water were being built every year.

Our clients are everyday folks. We don't represent big corporations; we represent the husband and wife who have 80 acres of land they want to divide and they can't under Oregon's land-use laws.

Our goal is to determine if we can detect any pollutants entering our lakes. With more than 1,018 acres of lakes, ensuring their protection is a priority for us.

Our crews have responded to over 4,900 fires and we had somewhere around 100,000 acres of forest land burned in the state.

Someone has said $1 million, but no one knows. But five to six acres of oysters is a lot of oysters. It all depends on how many people will be fishing out there, too, and what the prices are.

That 38 acres of agricultural land will be gone forever. That's undebatable.

I'm happy Boca High is getting some needed things, but I don't think it will help in the long run. Boca High has 30 acres of land, which is the smallest site in the county for a comprehensive high school.

The 5,000 or so acres of Royal Parks are one of the things that make London special.

The 6,015 acres in question constitute only three one-hundredths of 1 percent of the land in the state of Maine. There are literally millions of acres adjacent to Baxter State Park where hunting can, will and should continue.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is 19 million acres, ... The area set aside for oil and gas exploration is 1.5 million acres. Because of advances in technology, only 2,000 acres of that will be needed for production.

I would love to have an animal sanctuary in Franklin County. We're looking for someone who could donate the land. Five or 10 acres would be enough.

Will they be bad owners? Will they simply flip this property over to developers? ... One hundred and twenty-seven acres in the center of Pinellas County is worth a fortune.

When it comes to horses, we need lots of acres and not many horses, but with these acres it would seem to be too small for the task at hand.

We estimate it will take 150,000 to 200,000 acres to meet the offset.

We had a little bit of rain to come in. It helped for about two days. And now we're back to the way we were two days...you know, last week we were chasing fires, and all the fires been 100 acres plus. The same thing's happening now. It just takes a little spark, and the fire runs and it's hard to catch it.

We've got speculators calling us -- mostly from California and the Northeast -- who say, 'We'll just send crews out there and start building hundreds of homes,' There's a lot of interest in securing a hundred to a thousand acres of land.

We've lost numerous other structures, five vehicles and tens of thousands of acres of land.

We're talking about 1,100 deer in 90,000 acres of land. We just don't think the overpopulation problem is so severe that it requires this response.

We have almost 80 acres on the south side, to park aircraft on, and during the season it's packed full, ... They may be sitting there 20, 30 or 40 minutes waiting to be released by the central tower.

We could eventually lose so many acres that the U.S. could lose markets and its standing as a reliable supplier.

We have thousands of acres of crop loss. This is a freeze that left its mark.

When I first joined the Irvine Company, I realized that less than 11,000 acres were designated as open space in the original master plan, and that just didn't seem adequate to me. So, I began the lengthy process working with public and community organizations to add more open space.

We have an indoor covered arena, an outdoor arena, 200 acres of trails and 90 acres of lush pasture. We're open to the public for boarding, (horse) training and teaching people how to ride. We can stable 20 horses." ()

We are hoping that the county will use the 16.3 acres as an elementary school site.

Two years ago, ... intense fires burned 739,597 acres in these national forests, destroying 3,631 homes and killing 24 people. Fuel loads may be worse this year because of grasses that have grown as a result of last winter's rains.

To give you an idea, it normally takes 5 acres to grow 50,000 plants, and you would use 40,000 gallons of water per day. We use 1,500 gallons per day.

We?re lucky that the York Water District leases us about 6.5 acres of land up there. That?s how we were able to grow and expand, and they have recently added another seven acres to our 50-year lease with them ... We are hoping to build a small education center so that we can be more of a public facility.

When we received it, it was just an old farmhouse and 560 acres of land. It's grown quite a bit.

We'd like to preserve about 1,000 acres a year. We hope to be at 9,500 next year (since the program started in 1990) and our goal is to reach 10,000 acres by 2007.

And even our present acres of death will someday bloom again...

A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.

My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres.

Congo is one of the least-developed countries in the world, and has millions of acres of virtually untouched forest.

Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?

I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.

We own just over seven acres of the upper bluff and will pursue the remaining four properties with all deliberate speed as money allows and as the owners are willing to sell.

While plantation forests are an extremely valuable resource and will undoubtedly supply an increasing portion of wood and fiber needs in the future, they should not be considered a substitute for the region's dwindling natural forests. During the past five years, the region lost more than 14.8 million acres of natural forests.

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?