Quote by Aldo Leopold
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. – Aldo Leopold

Other quotes by Aldo Leopold

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. – Aldo Leopold

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Beauty
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There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace. – Aldo Leopold

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Gardens
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Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers. – Aldo Leopold

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Education
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Other Quotes from
environmental
category

Ive always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But Im willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place, well have to-in order to increase another place, Im willing to do that. – Judd Gregg

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environmental

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it. – Barry Commoner

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environmental

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now. – James Lovelock

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environmental

So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions. – Godfrey Reggio

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environmental

Random Quotes

Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land. – Walter Knott

Category:
Home

My favorite fruit is grapes. Because with grapes, you always get another chance. Cause, you know, if you have a crappy apple or a peach, youre stuck with that crappy piece of fruit. But if you have a crappy grape, no problem – just move on to the next. Grapes: The Fruit of Hope. – Demetri Martin

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Hope

Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face. – Jorge Luis Borges

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Travel

It is our destiny to be born beautiful into an ugly age. – Henry Rollins

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Society