Quotes about land
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. Aldo Leopold
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
land people support
If everyone agreed to become vegetarian, leaving little or nothing for livestock, the present 1.4 billion hectares of arable land (3.5 billion acres) would support about 10 billion people, E. O. Wilson
land dwelling humanity
So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months.
land ecosystems ants
In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
land mind vanishing
I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.
land horizon millennials
We need freedom to roam across land owned by no one but protected by all, whose unchanging horizon is the same that bounded the world of our millennial ancestors.
land rest-of-life ants
Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
land people literature
Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land. E. M. Forster
land long unrest
The hated system of land tenure, so contributory to general unrest in Asia, has been abolished. Every farmer is now accorded the right and dignity of ownership of the land he long has tilled. Douglas MacArthur
land battle want
I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment. Dorothy Stang
land may helping
I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter. Donald Cargill
land ideas rivers
My parents screened 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I became fascinated by the idea of living in a candy land with chocolate rivers and lollipop trees. Dylan Lauren
landscape lifetime position
I'm fascinated by how you'll change your position so many times over a lifetime, but really what you're doing is occupying a series of positions on a landscape. Dylan Moran
land cities new-orleans
Corruption at every level, city, state, federal, all has helped in making New Orleans a disaster area, the most disappearing land mass on the planet Earth. Dr. John
land violence murder
We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.
land umpires white
In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin. Desmond Tutu
land justice trying
I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and you see the settlements, you see what has happened to the land that was owned by the Palestinians. I have often said to my Jewish friends: "Please just remember where you come from. Remember Yahweh, who said to the Israelites, 'Treat the alien well with justice.'"
landscape surprise natural
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves. Derek Walcott
land saint glory
There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day. Andrew Young
land mum
I told him to buy land, my mum says, they’re not making it anymore. Chuck Palahniuk
land poverty custodians
But ask yourself this Eragon: If gods exist, have they been good custodians of alagaesia? Death, sickness, poverty, tyranny and countless other miseries stalk the land. If this is the handiwork of divine beings, then they are to be rebelled against and overthrown, not given obeisance, obedience, and reverance. Christopher Paolini
land people misunderstood
That is a list of the Territories that yielded to Ebon Askavi. They now stand within the shadow of the Keep. They are mine. Anyone who tries to settle in my Territory without my consent will be dealt with. Anyone who harms any of my people will be executed. There will be no excuses and no exceptions. I will say it simply so that the members of this Council and the intruders who thought to take land they had no right to claim can never say they misunderstood." Jaenelle's lips curled into a snarl. "STAY OUT OF MY TERRITORY! Anne Bishop
land evil peasants
The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil. Andrei Codrescu
land suffering fellowship
Even though we must walk in the land of fear, there is no need to fear. The power of His resurrection comes before the fellowship of His sufferings. Amy Carmichael