Land Ethic Quotes

#1. I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever 'written' ... It evolves in the minds of a thinking community.

Aldo Leopold

#2. A land ethic, then, reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health of the land. Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal. Conservation is our effort to understand and preserve this capacity.

Aldo Leopold

#3. A land ethic for tomorrow should ... stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life.

Stewart Udall

#4. To be sure, they have had the occasional success, but there is little chance that North America will develop a functional land ethic until it finds a way to overcome its irrational addiction to profit.

Thomas King

#5. I was not born here by my consciousness towards a land ethic was

Terry Tempest Williams

#6. My best piece of advice is to do something you're passionate about. If you do - you'll do it well - and the money follows.

Ralph Strangis

#7. People that know me know that I cook. I cook every night.

Amy Sedaris

#8. A culture is as rich and as capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists, skilled men of science, a high ethic level, workable government, land and natural resources, in about that order of importance.

L. Ron Hubbard

#9. The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.

Margaret Fuller

#10. I've had my fill of cool, Willow. These days it's kindness, honesty, and stability that impress me.

Lisa Unger

#11. Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried.

Karl Kraus

#12. If you appeal to the crowd, either by being humorous or brutal or eccentric, you gain favor.

Suzanne Collins

#13. The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.

Adam Smith

#14. Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic.

James H. Douglas Jr.

#15. Did you have an awesome time? Did you drink awesome shooters, listen to awesome music, and then just sit around and soak up each others awesomeness?

Janis Ian

#16. Where love n happiness makes us blind, pain n hurt helps to see truth. So, pain in good.

Deepakgogna

#17. Such: From the first morning after the move, when she

Gillian Flynn

#18. The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.

Stewart Udall