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Quotes from Land — Simon Winchester

born 1944 United States

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The future is a foreign country: they will do things differently there.

Land (2021)

One nation has been fond of seizing what another was tired of possessing; and it will be difficult to point out the country which is to this day in the hands of its first inhabitants.

Land (2021)

With the world’s sea level rising fast, the assumption that land is the only thing that can’t fly away, or the only thing that lasts, is for the first time now shown to be demonstrably false.

Land (2021)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Simon Winchester (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.