Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. – Aldo Leopold
The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land. – Aldo Leopold
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
Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake…. During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast. – William Rathje, The Economist, 8 September 1990