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We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. – Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

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To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. – Theodore Roosevelt, seventh annual message, 3 December 1907

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Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity. – E.Knight

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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. – Henry David Thoreau

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Take care of the earth and she will take care of you. – Author Unknown

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