Animal Quote by Aldo Leopold

The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations

— Aldo Leopold

My favorite quote: The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land...…

— Aldo Leopold

Property in land is as indefensible as property in man.

— Henry George

As Charles Darwin said,'The economy shown by Nature in her resources is striking,'' says the Spirit. 'All wealth comes from Nature. Without it, there…

— Margaret Atwood

Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be…

— Thomas Clarkson

What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish…

— Massasoit

As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his…

— John Locke

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man…

— Pope Leo XIII

If a man owns land, the land owns him.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means…

— Henry David Thoreau

In our time, in particular, there exists another form of ownership which is becoming no less important than land: the possession of know-how, technology…

— Pope John Paul II