Douglas Tompkins

I have even begun to think that I am caring for Argentina and Chile perhaps more than Argentines and Chileans. I feel like I'm sort of a de facto citizen, because I am looking after their national patrimony - which is the land - very carefully.

American Businessman

Chrystia Freeland

Urbanites may picture farmers as hip heritage-pig breeders returning to the land, or a struggling rural underclass waging a doomed battle to hang on to their patrimony as agribusiness moves in. But these stereotypes are misleading.

Canadian Musician

Francis of Assisi

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

Italian Saint

Henry Kissinger

The attitude of the West and of Russia towards a crisis like Ukraine is diametrically different. The West is trying to establish the legality of any established border. For Russia, Ukraine is part of the Russian patrimony.

American Statesman

Joseph Brodsky

American poetry is this country's greatest patrimony. It takes a stranger to see some things clearly. This is one of them, and I am that stranger.

American Poet

Isaac D'Israeli

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

British Writer

Guilherme Leal

Brazil has one of the greatest natural patrimonies in terms of biodiversity.

Brazilian Businessman

Used when discussing the transfer of possessions from ancestors.

Asset Inheritance

Highlights one's lineage and bond with the past through tangible assets.

Ancestral Connection

Emphasizes that the value of patrimony lies not just in wealth, but in family history.

Historical Value

Refers to items or traditions that embody a society's history and identity.

Cultural Heritage

Indicates something collectively owed by a community or nation, not individuals.

Collective Ownership

Carries a sense of responsibility towards preserving communal history.

Protective Sentiment

Often implies the management and care for property by a religious institution.

Religious Stewardship

Involves assets with spiritual or religious significance.

Sacred Association

 a monastery called hla and his followers built three or four houses and that's one of them that's partly why it's so hard to let it go because it's such a piece of the patrimony and it was abandoned forever I was just about to abandon do you ever

Every Day in Tuscany PIPE...

 and it'll prove invaluable in the reconstruction. They couldn't have anticipated the fire or how their scan would be used, but we're lucky to have it. We take for granted that our cultural and ecological patrimony will be around forever.

Patrimony