1.   And food the land provides is what binds people and the earth.

2.   Clear-cut land provides food for many birds as well as moose, snowshoe hare and other animals that are comfortable in the open.

3.   Conservation groups have opposed leasing there because the land provides habitat for fish, birds and caribou.

4.   In the best of times, Moreno said, the land provides a scant living.

5.   The land provides an outstanding array of fruit and vegetables that are eaten only in season.

6.   They say the land provides Israel with security and much of its water supply.

7.   Certainly, in the slowly growing agrarian era in which Malthus lived, it would have seemed impossible for the land to provide everyone with unbounded plenitude.

8.   The former Crawford land provided timber to several owners before International Paper Corp. acquired it last year.