We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.
The outcome of this culture of discrimination is that young people are routinely denied the roles in society they can, should, and need to be occupying.
If you can imagine the one family continuously occupying the same land for 40,000 years or more, using it not just to sustain life but as a place of reverence and worship, where every tree, rock and waterhole had significance, you will get some understanding of the importance of land to indigenous people.
A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.
Stop invading Muslims lands! How can you expect Muslims to love you when you are forcefully occupying their lands and murdering their people?
Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.
Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
I don't care about truth; I care about art and style and writing and occupying the wall. For me, my writing style is very linked to the fact that it is a work of art on the wall. I had to find a way to write in concise, effective phrases that people standing or walking into a room could read.
The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts.
Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.
I think I know now why we are occupying Iraq. In case we have to sell America and move to a smaller country.
For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an immoderate use of mathematical models, which are frequently no more than an excuse for occupying the terrain and masking the vacuity of the content.
We need to demilitarize local police departments so that they do not look like occupying armies. We want police departments that look like the communities they are serving.
Even by the twenty-second century, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservative scientists from occupying crucial administrative positions. Indeed, it was doubted if the problem ever would be solved.
I could not do the film Spinal Tap because I was already at MTV and it was occupying all my time.
You don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries by occupying Iraq.
Should the enemy forestall you in occupying a pass, do not go after him if the pass is fully garrisoned, but only if it is weakly garrisoned.
I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing.
We have sacrificed the old immaterial gods, and now we are occupying the temple of the Market-God. He organizes our economy, our politics, our habits, our lives, and even provides us with rates and credit cards and gives us the appearance of happiness.
I don't think there's going to be peace as long as Israel is occupying land that belongs to the Palestinians, to Lebanon and to Syria.
