Quotes about land
land privilege economic
The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations Aldo Leopold
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.
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.
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
land brain acting
Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated. Albert Einstein
lands mortals poor reasoning wrong
Wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions George Eliot
land shining nostalgia
That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again. A. E. Housman
landing till watch
I was so nervous, I couldn't watch till the landing was over.
land
One thing we've got a lot of, ... is land.
land water long
The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we're coming to the end of world resources. Jared Diamond
land creating people
As far as I understand, the Second Coming is already here. It's a consciousness. It is not someone who is going to arrive and land in a clearing in the forest. The Hell that they talk of is going to be people creating their own unhappiness, a Hell on Earth. Jane Siberry
landed
the only way he could have landed where he landed was if he jumped.
landing
Neil Armstrong, when he was out there landing on the moon, I was there first.
land lie though
No change, though you lie under / The land you used to plough.
land urban wants
If a person wants to keep their land from ever going into urban development, they get a conservation easement,
land ruin state trust
I don't trust them. I don't want to see this land going into state hands. They will ruin it. John Bradley
land promised safe scene wonderful
I loved getting to do Promised Land with him. I mean, he's really there for you. We did one very emotional scene in the church. He's just a wonderful acting partner. You feel very safe with him. Delta Burke