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Land Quotes by Aldo Leopold
- All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. . . The…
- Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.
- Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern who has…
- When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: He could plant a tree. And when the axe was invented, he…
- I do not imply that this philosophy of land was always clear to me. It is rather the end result of a life journey.
- There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land.
- Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.
- What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more substantial service to…
- Our tools are better than we are, and grow better faster than we do. They suffice to crack the atom, to command the tides, but…
- I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever 'written'… It evolves…
- Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many…
- The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.
- The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations
- My favorite quote: The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land... In…
- Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you…
- Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.
- Having to squeeze the last drop of utility out of the land has the same desperate finality as having to chop up the furniture to…
- Thus far we have considered the problem of conservation of land purely as an economic issue. A false front of exclusively economic determinism is so…
- If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not...
- We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.
- Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land.
- There is yet no ethic dealing with man's relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it. Land, like Odysseus' slave-girls,…
- It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation to land can exist without love, respect, and admiration for land, and a high regard for…
- The most important characteristic of an organism is that capacity for internal self-renewal known as health. There are two organisms whose processes of self-renewal have…
- The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism.
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- In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival. — Rudolf Arnheim
- Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending… — Bashar al-Assad
- When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched… — Chinua Achebe
- I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I… — David Attenborough
- People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic… — David Attenborough
- When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. — Chinua Achebe
- We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that… — Abu Abbas
- I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding… — Amitabh Bachchan
- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
- America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land. — Philip James Bailey
- There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude. — Robert Ballard
- My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims. — Brigitte Bardot