Unhappy the land in need of heroes – the line is apt.
The name is not pretty, and neither, usually, is the kind of property it describes: previously developed land in need of environmental cleanup.
In many cases, land in need of drainage is so flat that a contour map showing elevations 12 inches (30 centimetres) or six inches (15 centimetres) apart is used to identify trouble spots and possible outlets for drainage water.
Her writings on India reveal her strong sense of European, if not specifically British, superiority; India therefore appears in her works as a morally corrupt land in need of reformation.
The 1950s property in Peckham comes with 0.6 acres of land, is in need of renovation and has no fitted bathroom, but still sold for £950,000.
It can also be given to a specific person, people, or the land in desperate need for water (love).
As Brecht said, 'Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.' I hope we don't need another".
South Africa might do well to heed Bertolt Brecht's old line: "Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes".
Writing in the Observer last year, Birrell argued that "too many people remain locked into stale narratives of Africa as a land of suffering in need of our salvation" and suggested that the "continent is on the edge of economic take-off similar to those seen so dramatically in China and India".
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
At the moment, it is not known just how many graveyards are abiding by unenforced tighter regulations recommended by international experts, disposing of contaminated groundwater responsibly, and red-flagging land that is in need of an effective drainage system.
