(3211 quotes found)
“If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land”
Mencius
“Conservation is the foresighted utilization, preservation and/or renewal of forests, waters, lands and minerals, for the greatest good of the greatest number for the longest time.”
Gifford Pinchot
“Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.”
Aldo Leopold
“To waste, to destroy, our natural resources,to skin and exhaust the land instead ofusing it so as to increase its usefulness,will result in undermining in the days of our childrenthe very prosperity which we ought by right tohand down to them amplified...”
Theodore Roosevelt
“This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.”
Elmer Davis
“A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.”
A. E. Housman
“America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“When God punishes a land, he deprives it leaders of wisdom.”
Italian Proverb
“As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.”
Adam Smith
