Samuel Beckett

Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.

Irish Playwright

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Roman Statesman

Jack London

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

American Novelist

Beauden Barrett

It certainly helped just having acres and acres of green grass, a back lawn where there's goal posts and plenty of siblings and cousins around to compete with and play against.

New Zealander Athlete

Thomas Paine

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

English Activist

Sissy Spacek

Texas is just so rich with characters. Women who live alone in a little house on a thousand acres with nothing but cattle and a pickup truck. And an airplane.

American Actress

Jesse Plemons

I grew up in a town outside of Waco, Texas, and we had 30 acres.

American Actor

Red Auerbach

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

American Coach

Krysten Ritter

I'm from a small town, a farm, a hundred acres.

Penelope Spheeris

I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood.

American Director

An acre is commonly used to measure large tracts of land, like farms.

Land Measurement

Since an acre is a large area, compare it to football fields for better understanding.

Visualizing Size

Remember, one acre is about 0.4047 hectares or 4,840 square yards.

Conversion Factor

The word 'acre' can express a large, undefined amount of something.

Metaphorical Use

It can be used figuratively, not always referring to physical land.

Non-literal Contexts

Using 'acres' can emphasize the vastness or abundance of non-physical concepts.

Emphasizing Abundance

Acre, a town in Israel, is steeped in history and worth exploring.

Historical Significance

The town Acre is often pronounced 'Ah-ko' from its Hebrew name, Akko.

Pronunciation

Acre has a diverse cultural identity with significant Arab and Jewish heritage.

Cultural Identity

 While orangutans are able to pass cognitive tests with flying colors, there are certain problems that they need our help to solve. Indonesia has the world's highest rate of deforestation, and millions of acres of rain forest are burned annually to support the logging and palm oil industries.

How smart are...

 facing threats like human disturbance or the introduction of predators they they are not familiar with so what with our science we discover what are the problems and how to solve them so one of the great things that we have done so far we have been able to protect 32 million acres

Protecting a Penguin...

 twice as much greenhouse gases are sequestered in the boreal per acre than the tropical rainforests. And what we're doing is we're destroying this carbon sink, turning it into a carbon bomb. And we're replacing that with the largest industrial project in the history of the world,

Garth Lenz: The true...

 to find out how much longer this river can sustain us every time i come to hoover dam i'm struck by how important this place is in the growth of the western united states it's the water supply for 40 million people 5 million acres of farmland the lettuce you eat all winter the

The Water Crisis PIPE...

 there are two or three acres where two dozen chimpanzees live on each of them. And these chimpanzees would then live the life of a chimpanzee, with other chimpanzees in an environment that was as close to Africa as possible. Now, all these cases are still going on.

Chimps have feelings and...

 But mostly we all just sit there forever, waiting. How did we get here where we devote hundreds of acres and thousands of hours to waiting? What if we had a waiting room where you don't just sit when you're sick, but where you go to get healthy.

Rebecca Onie: What if...

 for 50 years on millions of acres on five continents and all that is just from successful people spreading the word ordinary people that are supporting families and so on that management needs to be holistic embracing all science and

Avoiding desertification...

 it is to live a life apart in order to spend their lives without clothes nudists must form their own communities and keep them well out of sight we have 200 acres with swamps forests surrounding us in areas where we don't

Nudist Camp PIPE National...

 two and a half acres, jogging paths, restaurants, and the world's longest swimming pool. And that's all I can tell you in five minutes. Thank you.

Moshe Safdie: How to...

 hosting thousands of species of marine life as many as a hundred different kinds of Carl may occupy a single acre of ocean