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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

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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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Beauty
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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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Aldo Leopold
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In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them. – Aldo Leopold

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Springtime
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Gardens
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Most people who possess anything like an acre, or half of it, contribute weekly to the support of a gentleman known as Jobbing Gardener. You are warned of the danger that he may prove to be Garden Pest no 1. – C.E. Lucas-Phillips, The New Small Garden

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Gardens

The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. – George Bernard Shaw, The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, 193

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Gardens

There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other is the seed catalogues. – Hal Borland (1900–1978)

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Gardens

Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy. – Terri Guillemets

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Gardens

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Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family. – Thomas Bowdler

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Censorship

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course. – Stephen Spender

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Dreams

I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean Im a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes. – Tori Amos

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Love

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Marriage