First, that whatever relief they have received is not enough in exchange for abandoning their land forever.

"But," asked the Squire, "do you mean to abandon your land in Pennsylvania?"

The people who live in the hills are unable or unwilling to abandon their land and go down to the lowlands, where aid is available.

Soil erosion forced them, however, to abandon their land and move deeper into the rainforest.

But farmers abandoning their withered land didn't care to listen.

It was not profitable to try to process this, so the rush ended in 1866, and the prospectors mostly abandoned their land by 1867.

The aftershocks have led ranchers to abandon their land.

It happened just at the time when the Tuscan peasants were abandoning their land to go and work in the factories.

Nobody wants to abandon their land, their culture or their family.

These fines made it difficult for tenants to get by and many had to abandon their land.