Degrees Quote by John Locke

My reason teaches me that land cannot be sold. The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon. So long as they…

— Black Hawk

Property in land is as indefensible as property in man.

— Henry George

The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the…

— Adam Smith

“We abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong,…

— Aldo Leopold

Without that sense of security which property gives, the land would still be uncultivated.

— Francois Quesnay

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong,…

— Aldo Leopold

Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone

— Isabel Allende

“Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity…

— Aldo Leopold

“Property breeds lawyers, I said, forbearing to add a belief that unfortunately property now seemed the only thing palpable enough to demand the respect…

— Arthur Miller

There are some things that are sacred and should be kept close.

— Selah Louise Marley

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'…

— Aldo Leopold

Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to others, and…

— James F. Cooper