Budget Quote by Ric Keller

Everyone wants a piece of land. It's the only sure investment. It can never depreciate like a car or a washing machine. Land will…

— Sam Shepard

Loss of natural areas threatens our water supply, national security, farms, and health.

— Deb Haaland

All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

— Kofi Annan

Until every individual feels personally responsible for the careful planning and the preservation of natural resources, the inexorable destruction will go on.

— Eda LeShan

Like our finances, humankind is living with a growing ecological deficit but the solution is different. The deficit will worsen with dangerous consequences unless…

— Phil Harding

We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam…

— David Foreman

If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.

— Wendell Berry

If we want to prevent both climate and ecological catastrophes, the key task is to minimise the amount of land we use to feed…

— George Monbiot

For too long, unfunded federal mandates have drained the budgets of states and communities. The strength and vitality of our communities must be restored.

— Bernie Sanders

“Once land gets in a state, once it begins to deteriorate, it is hard to reverse the process. Land falls sick just like people—that's…

— Brian W. Aldiss

All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we have added…

— Gaylord Nelson

The American government has spent a lot of money trying to reclaim, for example, the Everglades, and to allow the natural vegetation at the…

— Wangari Maathai