Chains Quote by Stewart Udall

I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever 'written'… It…

— Aldo Leopold

We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether…

— W. Somerset Maugham

A land ethic...reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health of the…

— Aldo Leopold

Admittedly, we must move ahead with the development of our land resources. Likewise, our technology must be refined. But in the long run life…

— Stewart Udall

The land belongs to the future.

— Willa Cather

We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“We must live according to the principle of a land ethic. The alternative is that we shall not live at all.”

— Kathleen Dean Moore

Conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this nation, and that our first and greatest task is to set our house in…

— Theodore Roosevelt

...today it is the duty of every thinking being to live, and to serve not only his own day and generation, but also generations…

— Richard St. Barbe Baker

The immediate need for education and practice in using our natural resources of soil, forest, water, wildlife and areas of inspirational beauty to the…

— Walt Disney