It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.
A sense that with the blessings that God bestowed upon this land, came the responsibility to make the world a better place.
The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset.
A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.
Fish and Wildlife has a significant amount of federal funds for land acquisition, yet it is skimping on management of the lands it already possesses and shortchanging local tax bases.
One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.
It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.
When more land is locked up by the federal government, real people suffer, and opportunities for future prosperity are reduced.
The natural consequence of our submission, even in part, to the system that looks to compelling the export of raw products, the exhaustion of the land, the cheapening of labour, and the export of the labourer.