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The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

In the larger world, tribalism is an enormous problem, as it ever has been: both strength and idiocy borne from belonging.

It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property.

Since my residence at Tippecanoe, we have endeavored to level all distinctions, to destroy village chiefs, by whom all mischiefs are done. It is they who sell the land to the Americans.

In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.

I think private ownership is generally superior to public because you care about the land more and it doesn't get trashed.

Land is an emotional subject with a farmer in India because it is his only means of income.