If you're not willing to take the political heat, then you shouldn't get into the game of land conservation, especially on a… — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
Despite my great disappointment in American foreign policy, I am very proud of the American tradition of wild land conservation. It is… — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not... — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Without love of the land, conservation lacks meaning or purpose, for only in a deep and inherent feeling for the land can… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
A land ethic...reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
YIMBYs should embrace a housing reform agenda broader than increasing urban density. This should start with ending tax shelters in the form… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
