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

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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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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I know the pleasure of pulling up root vegetables. They are solvable mysteries. – Novella Carpenter, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer

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Gardens

Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another. – Robert Harbison, Eccentric Spaces, 1977

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Gardens

Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed. – Lewis Gannit

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Gardens

Today I had set aside for spading. Now there is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp. You turn a spade full and then carefully knock all the lumps to pieces and you go on for hours without thinking about anything. – John Steinbeck, letter to Kate Beswick

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Gardens

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You can cheat on your boyfriend or girlfriend but not on your workout. – Author Unknown

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Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failure. In the assurance of strength there is strength, and, they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. – Don Marquis

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If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like Ive hit the lottery. – Justin Long

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