Sentence examples for for saving land from inspiring English sources

So they fell back on what is becoming an increasingly frequent alternative for saving land - compromise development.

Having proven he had a special gift for saving land, he was asked to be national president of the Nature Conservancy.

"Clifford's subtle and heartfelt book is... an articulate brief for saving land that humans touch only lightly or not at all," Maria Russo wrote here in 2002.

Yet Clifford's subtle and heartfelt book is itself an articulate brief for saving land that humans touch only lightly or not at all.

To longtime residents and preservationists, the fleet bespeaks a ruinous invasion from the west and lost opportunities for saving land in a period when building pressures lagged.

But then she rattled off the reasons for new borrowings: "saving land, building schools, fixing bridges, dredging our ports and building prisons".

The result is an intriguing experiment in saving land for farming that has united conservation organizations with a diverse group of supporters, ranging from a food pantry on the Upper West Side to an order of nuns in the Hudson Valley.

Likewise, conservative lawmakers may favor opening up land to cultivation, while others prefer saving land for hunting constituents.

"We were conservationists before 'green' was even a popular word," said Allen Morris, known as Horntagger, who lives in Jackson, Mo. "We have sacrificed and used money for licenses to save land for the wildlife, but in the mainstream media, you never hear about it".

Roxbury, which has saved land for scenic views, for historical purposes, and now for farmland, is perhaps a good model for other land trusts.

The new mindset must be directed to raising yields from existing farmlands in order to save land for nature.