Quotes on the topic: Acres


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A lot of people don't know, but New Jersey has, like, 700,000 acres of farmland.


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


When I was 9, we moved to Osseo, Wis., where we owned a couple of hundred acres. My father was well respected in town.


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


Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.


LaGuardia is jammed into just 680 urban acres; taxiways are tight; runways intersect; you can't launch a departure until the arrival on the other runway crosses the threshold or else the airplanes will ... collide.


In Africa, you can make three acres sustainable relatively easily, but 50,000 acres? It's not about picking up towels or sleeping in a tent.


I grew up in a town outside of Waco, Texas, and we had 30 acres.


If I could afford it, I'd buy 1,000 acres and put my house right dead-center.


Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.


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.


When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.


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