Farming and Land Development
When not engaged in military action Potter was a farmer. Before the Revolution he was involved in opening former Indian territories to European settlement, and warranted a large tract of such land for his own use.
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Famous quotes containing the words farming, land and/or development:
“With the farming of a verse
Make a vineyard of the curse,”
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Way up high,
There’s a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby.”
—Yip Harburg (1898–1981)
“The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires a letting go of the techniques that worked before. With each passage some magic must be given up, some cherished illusion of safety and comfortably familiar sense of self must be cast off, to allow for the greater expansion of our distinctiveness.”
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