History Quote by Aldo Leopold Download Open image “The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.” — Aldo Leopold ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Human history Humans Land Pieces Tasks
“The oldest, easiest to swallow idea was that the earth was man's personal property, a combination of garden, zoo, bank vault, and energy source,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished,… — Jeanne Moreau Copy Share Image
Throughout history, human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonize-destroy-move on. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The only solution was education, offering the chance of experiencing at first hand the land and traditions of their forebears and proving that one… — Kuki Gallmann Copy Share Image
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have… — Alan Gregg Copy Share Image
“It’s sometimes argued that there’s no real progress; that a civilization that kills multitudes in mass warfare, that pollutes the land and oceans with… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
And besides; the problem of land, at its worst, is a bye one; distribute the earth as you will, the principal question remains inexorable,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions. To approach… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
Nature, and the original system that created us, must always remain somehow with us, the bedrock of our movements and actions. What is our… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
“To begin always anew, to make, to reconstruct, and to not spoil, to refuse to bureaucratize the mind, to understand and to live life… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“Over recent decades we have come from dwelling in another world in which the living works of nature either predominated or were near at… — Florence Williams Copy Share Image
The worthiness of any cause is not measured by its clean record, but by its readiness to see the blots when they are pointed… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Is it possible to preserve the element of Unknown Places in our national life? Is it practicable to do so, without undue loss in… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Teach the student to see the land, understand what he sees, and enjoy what he understands. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Wildflower corners are easy to maintain, but once gone, they are hard to rebuild. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
If education really educates, there will, in time, be more and more citizens who understand that relics of the old West add meaning and… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible to all…… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
To those who know the speech of hills and rivers straightening a stream is like shipping vagrants—a very successful method of passing trouble from… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
