The Captains of Industry have always counseled the rest of us "to be realistic." Let us, therefore, be realistic. Is it realistic… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Small societies are particularly vulnerable to disruption of key lifelines, such as trading relations, or to large perturbations like wars or natural… — David R. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Tourism, global warming and eradication of soil erosion causes have all been substantially enhanced through ecosystem study.” — Justin Ascott Copy Share Image
“In 1995, the gray wolf was reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park after a seventy-year hiatus. Scientists expected an ecological ripple effect, but… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
Language is like soil. However rich, it is subject to erosion, and its fertility is constantly threatened by uses that exhaust itsvitality.… — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
Essentially, all life depends upon the soil ... There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have… — Charles Kellogg Copy Share Image
But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
“This suggests that Palestine already had begun to suffer the soil erosion that during the centuries of Arab cultivation reduced it from… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Whoa, son,” said Atticus. “Nobody’s about to make you go anywhere but to bed pretty soon. I’m just going over to tell… — Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird Copy Share Image
The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
History is largely a record of human struggle to wrest the land from nature, because man relies for sustenance on the products… — Hugh Hammond Bennett Copy Share Image
“And for goodness' sake put some of the county back where it belongs, the soil erosion's bad enough as it is." Dill… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Soil erosion is as old as agriculture. It began when the first heavy rain struck the first furrow turned by a crude… — Hugh Hammond Bennett Copy Share Image
In Kenya, one of our biggest exports is coffee. Where do you grow coffee? You grow coffee in the land. To be… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
There would be no call for ecological campaigning had nature not been exploited and abused. We experience the ground now bringing forth… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
