Quotes about la
late term cia
By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter. Aldrich Ames
land two people
There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land. Aldo Leopold
land privilege economic
The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations
land-use term wells
Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.
land ezekiel belief
Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief.
land lasts furniture
Having to squeeze the last drop of utility out of the land has the same desperate finality as having to chop up the furniture to keep warm.
land rivers issues
Thus far we have considered the problem of conservation of land purely as an economic issue. A false front of exclusively economic determinism is so habitual to Americans in discussing public questions that one must speak in the language of compound interest to get a hearing.
land tinkering cogs
If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not...
land students enjoy
Teach the student to see the land, understand what he sees, and enjoy what he understands.
landscape portraits owners
The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.
land unexpected assuming
Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health.
law accomplishment tasks
I am asserting that those who love the wilderness should not be wholly deprived of it, that while the reduction of the wilderness has been a good thing, its extermination would be a very bad one, and that the conservation of wilderness is the most urgent and difficult of all the tasks that confront us, because there are no economic laws to help and many to hinder its accomplishment.
land community may
When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may see it with love and respect. - Perhaps such a shift of values can be achieved by reappraising things unnatural, tame, and confined in terms of things natural, wild, and free.
law progress minorities
The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not.
land soil moved
Time was when education moved toward soil, not away from it.
land curiosity may
What conservation education must build is an ethical underpinning for land economics and a universal curiosity to understand the land mechanism. Conservation may then follow.
land tasks cracks
Our tools are better than we are, and grow better faster than we do. They suffice to crack the atom, to command the tides, but they do not suffice for the oldest task in human history, to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.
land people culture
The problem, then, is how to bring about a striving for harmony with land among a people many of whom have forgotten there is any such thing as land, among whom education and culture have become almost synonymous with landlessness. This is the problem of conservation education.
land self renewal
Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.
land practice pieces
What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more substantial service to conservation than to practice it on one's own land?
land no-fear pleasant
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 pleasant things it will do to you.
land creating tree
When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: He could plant a tree. And when the axe was invented, he became a taker: He could chop it down. Whoever owns land has thus assumed, whether he knows it or not, the divine functions of creating and destroying plants.
land tasks pieces
The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.
land levels looks
We do not see and estimate the relative importance of objects so easily and clearly from the level or the waving land as from the elevation of a lone peak, towering above the plain; for each looks through his own mist. Albert Pike
lasts life-is our-lives
That which we say and do, if its effects last not beyond our lives, is unimportant.
law justice naked
We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of Mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as in others, is based upon justice and law rather than the threat of naked power. Albert Einstein
law succeed causes
Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed.
lasts surface collapse
The last thing to collapse is the surface.
law community peaceful
Only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.
land brain acting
Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated.
law understanding intuition
The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them.
lazy three action
A person of riyaa (showing off) has three characteristics : He is lazy when alone, energetic when with others, and increases in his actions when he is praised while decreasing in them when he is criticized.
law people entrepreneur
First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will. Alexander Lebed