Acre Quotes

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Most of her early childhood was spent in Petaluma,Sonoma county. The family spent some time in Columbia with Chilean revolutionaries in the mid-70s. They moved to a 300 acre commune in Elk, Mendocino County with seven other families in the late 1970s.

- Winona Ryder

My father was an avid gardener. On many a summer morning he rousted me out of bed well before sunup and handed me a hoe. We had more than an acre to tend, and the objective was to get as much as possible done before the sun got too high in the sky and the temperature rose above 100. The humidity in that region, while good for the skin and for growing vegetables, is oppressive, and heat exhaustion is always a possibility in summer. On several occasions my thoughts turned patricidal. But as the years have passed, I have grown to appreciate what my dad taught me, not only about growing things in the earth, but also about responsibility and the value of hard, physical work. I now derive physical and spiritual pleasure from gardening. All this galls me a little, because my dad always said it would turn out this way.

- Don Henley

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

- Tanya Tucker

We try to shorten the growing season by planting some 104-105-day hybrids that help us save two weeks of irrigation. That`s a savings of $10-20/acre. I`m glad seed companies are looking at developing more drought-tolerant hybrids as well as shorter-season corn.

- David Ford

Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat.

- Alexandra Paul

Property adjacent to one-acre lots should be zoned one-acre.

- David Nelson

The in-town projects are opening up the centers of our communities to accommodate some of the growth that is coming, ... We`ve got 18,000 new people moving here a year. If everyone is going to build on acre lots, we are in trouble.

- Jeff Taylor

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

- Red Auerbach

This is one of the strongest auctions we`ve seen. It sold in the top end of the trading range for Class A (the most productive) soils. There is a good supply of Class A land that typically sells for $4,100 to $6,000 per acre depending on size, location and quality.

- Brian Thompson

(Ms. Green, 37, has published six other books, which are targeted at female readers and have together sold more than a million copies, according to her publisher. She and her husband, bank executive David Burke, bought a 20-acre property for $4.5 million in nearby Litchfield County, Conn., which is their main home.) My dream has always been to raise my kids on a farm, ... Plus the peace and quiet enables me to be far more creative.

- Jane Green

There are very few parcels with an acre or above, ... If you needed five to 10 acres, it would be very scarce.

- Gary Myers

It all starts with the price of the land. Show me another market that is selling land for $700,000 an acre that`s not looking at the ocean. We don`t have enough, and it`s priced too high.

- Dennis Smith

The vast majority of owners desire this annexation and request R-1 (residential, minimum 1-acre lot size) zoning for the acreage,

- Gary Hill

We were in a 16-acre disaster zone that went for 10 or 12 blocks,

- Thomas Graham

At any market, you can see vendors who have been conventional farmers raising soybeans and corn. But they find they can make the same money from a half-acre of strawberries.

- Neil Hamilton

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

- Alan Rupe

Domesticated plants and animals yield far more calories per acre than do wild habitats, in which most species are inedible to humans.

- Ali Aoun

Anyone is able to attend the 338-acre camp, ... Kids get to participate in daily activities, lots of arts and crafts and community service projects. There are also educational and group programs throughout the year as well at the camp.

- Andy Poplin

This was born out of necessity, ... We wanted to have a certain size property and we only had so much land to work with. We realized we had to put the parking underground, so we came up with a plan and put it in place. When you look at the cost of an acre of land on the Strip, you need to make your best usage of that land.

- Angel Espada

We`ll have an acre of land where we can have a vintage market.

- Anne Alton

We also go throughout the area and plant small stands of milo that they can feed on as they scatter. There`s a lot of work involved in doing that. It`s 200 plots (each about a half-acre to an acre) spread all over this place.

- Arlene White

The Johnsons were cooperating with the church to get the six-tenth of an acre separated from the larger five-acre parcel. Somehow or another, the Johnsons just sold the property to these two gentlemen in Manteca (who) acquired title to the property,

- Arthur Caplan

They couldn`t irrigate an acre in some parts of the state with only 1 acre-foot of water, especially if it were typical irrigation.

- Austin Kirby

(A. Lowe`s is next in line of the big retailers slated to come to Hampton Cove. Randy Cunningham with the city planning department said officials with Lowe`s have already approached the board of adjustments to request the necessary permits to build there, across the street from Super Wal-Mart. In early June, a permit was issued to Ben Branum Contractors of Huntsville for grading and drainage work on a 30-acre site at that corner.) It is still in the planning stages, and we don`t have the drawings on it yet, ... It isn`t entirely solid yet, but that is what has been proposed.

- Aviya Kushner