"When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: He could plant a tree. And when the axe was invented, he became a taker: He could chop it down. Whoever owns land has thus assumed, whether he knows it or not, the divine functions of creating and destroying plants."

-- Aldo Leopold

#Land Quotes #Creating Quotes #Tree Quotes

“Truth is the most powerful force on earth because it cannot be changed.”

Source : Mike Murdock (1994). “The One-Minute Businessman's Devotional”, Honor Books
“Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.”
“I find it so unattractive when women wear sneakers with their business suits. I wear a nice pair of loafers or low-heeled pumps, and that's that.”
“Soon comes the cold, and the night that never ends.”
“I'm not strong-willed enough or unkind enough... or maybe simply not wise enough to tell a journalist that a subject is out of bounds.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“There are two schools of thought. A manager would tell you that must make them realize you're a dedicated actor and I took a totally different route than that. I never ever took myself seriously.”
“Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.”
“It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. Thats set out in the Constitution.”

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