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The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to

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

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

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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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We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. – American Indian Proverb

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As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them. – Louis Bromfield

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The current collapse of industrial society may well be the planets way of avoiding a larger death. – Morris Bergman

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Ecology is rather like sex — every new generation likes to think they were the first to discover it. – Michael Allaby

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When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behavior that compromises the lives of millions of people around the world can truly change. – Simon Mainwaring

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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. – J. Paul Getty

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I am very sorry to know and hear how unreverently that most precious jewel, the Word of God, is disputed, rhymed, sung and jangled in every ale-house and tavern, contrary to the true meaning and doctrine of the same. – Edward VIII

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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables. – Michel de Montaigne

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