Quotes about la
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. Aldo Leopold
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
laughing firsts lasts
He who shoots first laughs last.
laughter clouds laughing
I have heard articulate speech produced by sunlight I have heard a ray of the sun laugh and cough and sing! … I have been able to hear a shadow, and I have even perceived by ear the passage of a cloud across the sun's disk. Alexander Graham Bell
law long liberty
Were it not that it might require too long a discussion, it would not be difficult to demonstrate that a large and well-organized republic can scarcely lose its liberty from any other cause than that of anarchy, to which a contempt of the laws is the high-road. Alexander Hamilton
law two government
Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism-the last, of liberty.
law numbers done
The injury which may possibly be done by defeating a few good laws, will be amply compensated by the advantage of preventing a number of bad ones.
law letters operations
Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.
law government liberty
The instrument by which it [government] must act are either the AUTHORITY of the laws or FORCE. If the first be destroyed, the last must be substituted; and where this becomes the ordinary instrument of government there is an end to liberty!
law liberty foundation
I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.
law empowering spirit
[T]here is not a syllable in the plan under consideration which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to the spirit of the Constitution.
law people genius
The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and preemptory spirit of excise laws.
law giving peculiar
[T]he Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is an evident opposition, the laws ought to give place to the Constitution. But this doctrine is not deducible from any circumstance peculiar to the plan of convention, but from the general theory of a limited Constitution.