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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

Category:
Beauty
Author
Aldo Leopold
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The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land. – Aldo Leopold

Category:
Conservation
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Aldo Leopold
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Other Quotes from
environmental
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There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldnt take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems. – Edward James Olmos

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environmental

Like I said, Im more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms. – Hans Blix

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environmental

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment. – Pat Buckley

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environmental

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand. – Christopher Dodd

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environmental

Random Quotes

Im not angry, Im not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that Im more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well. – Calvin Harris

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Anger

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. – Plato

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Fear

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion. – Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg) Acton

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Ignorance & Stupidity

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. – Rainer Maria Rilke

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Hang in There