Quotes About Land Degradation

#1. Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation.

Joel Salatin

#2. We see evidence that lakes and forests and wetlands can have different equilibria - so you have a savanna system that may be stable and thriving, but it can also tip over and become an arid steppe if pushed too far by warming, land degradation, and biodiversity loss.

Johan Rockstrom

#3. The best lies contain within them nuggets of truth, enough to give a listener pause.

George R R Martin

#4. I have a company, and I've got to think about that. I'm trying to do my best there, and that's a much harder task. We recycle as much as possible, and we conserve. But I've always been one to save everything - I even walk up stairs on the very inside or the very outside to not wear out the tread.

Vivienne Westwood

#5. Once land gets in a state, once it begins to deteriorate, it is hard to reverse the process. Land falls sick just like people - that's the whole tragedy of our time.

Brian W. Aldiss

#6. A set of huge marble busts stared smugly down from on high: great merchants and financiers of Styrian history, by the look of them. Criminals made heroes by colossal success.

Joe Abercrombie

#7. When a thing is denied, the very denial involves something not denied.

D.T. Suzuki

#8. It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

James Russell Lowell