Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London

"It's beautiful down beyond the Sur," he told her. "I've been all
over those redwood canyons, and the place is alive with game. The
government land is there, too. But you'd be foolish to settle.
It's too remote. And it isn't good farming land, except in
patches in the canyons. I know a Mexican there who is wild to
sell his five hundred acres for fifteen hundred dollars. Three
dollars an acre! And what does that mean? That it isn't worth
more. That it isn't worth so much; because he can find no takers.
Land, you know, is worth what they buy and sell it for."