Land Quotes

3805 Land quotes by 2327 unique authors

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… — Aldo Leopold
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… — Aldo Leopold
The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it. — Aldo Leopold
The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations — Aldo Leopold
Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice. — Wendell Berry
WE ARE DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY - I mean our country itself, our land. This is a terrible thing to know, but it is not a… — Wendell Berry
Watching the animals come and go, and feeling the land swell up to meet them and then feeling it grow still at their departure, I… — Barry Lopez
The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves. — Barry Lopez
In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us. — Barry Lopez
The land is like poetry:Â Â it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration… — Barry Lopez
I think the thing that -- the prayer that I would like America is to ask for is to pray for God's protection for our… — George W. Bush
If all those magnificent cathedrals with their valuable lands in Boston, Philadelphia and New York were taxed as they should be, the taxes of women… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I stand before you to proclaim tonight: America is the land where dreams can come true for all of us. — Geraldine Ferraro
The river moves from land to water to land, in and out of organisms, reminding us what native peoples have never forgotten: that you cannot… — Lynn Culbreath Noel
You never reach the promised land. You can march towards it — James Callaghan
There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn't spoil the sky, or the rain or the land — Paul McCartney
If zoos are like arks, then rare animals are like passengers on a voyage of the damned, never to find a port that will let… — Peter Singer
Who would you vote most likely to succeed? Bob Arum - White, Jewish, a graduate of Harvard, a Kennady Raider, United States Attorney. Don King… — Don King
The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their… — Thomas Gray
There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. — Isaac Watts
The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider… — Shimon Peres
America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Spring sprang suddenly onto the land. — Jean Giono
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands. — John Dryden
The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world… — Ansel Adams

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