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Soil 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.
- The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing…
- Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.
- 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…
- We realize the indivisibility of the earth-its soil, mountains, rivers, forests, climate, plants, and animals-and respect it collectively not only as a useful servant but…
- Time was when education moved toward soil, not away from it.
More Soil Quotes
- Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. — Margaret Atwood
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a… — Henry Ward Beecher
- The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to… — Pope Benedict XVI
- There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in… — Ezra Taft Benson
- You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and… — Jacob Bronowski
- Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by… — Charlotte Bronte
- A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls… — Pam Brown
- But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened… — King Albert II
- Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them. — Sitting Bull
- Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. — Edmund Burke
- My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. — Ray Charles