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Quote by Aldo Leopold
There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the d

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

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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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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environmental
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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

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Conservation
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Gardens
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What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. – Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer in a Garden, 1871

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Gardens

O ye Sun and Moon, oh ye beans and roses, oh ye jigs and juleps, Bless ye the Lord, Praise Him and Magnify Him Forever. Amen. – Virginia Cary Hudson, “Gardening,” O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, 1962

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Gardens

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation. – Phyllis Theroux

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Gardens

Let nature be in your yard. – Greg Peterson, www.urbanfarm.org [Said during Urban Farm tour, 2014 March 22nd,

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Gardens

Random Quotes

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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alone

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. – Anon.

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Faith

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays. – Henny Youngman

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Christmas

The whole essence of good drawing – and of good thinking, perhaps – is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be. – Chuck Jones

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work