"Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals."

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Source : Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.216, Oxford University Press, USA

Aldo Leopold

#Animal Quotes #Garden Quotes #Land Quotes

“Some people think that the people they lead are too stupid to be told the truth, and thus they must be lied to, in order for a greater good to be accomplished. Some people believe in the system that has been set up, where the strongest among us is going to lead us in a fight, otherwise everyone is the same. That's the doctrine of pirates.”
“Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational.”

Source : "Hedi Slimane: putting the flounce into fashion" by Viv Groskop, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2012.
“My message is believe in yourself. Have courage in your capacity. Listen to your inner voice. And then the critical component of all this is, do the work.”
“In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.”
“Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.”

Source : "Man and Crisis". Book by José Ortega y Gasset, p. 94, 1962.
“Life is like a beach chair when you can afford one”
“I've never met a successful pessimist.”
“There is no hunt in Thanet, nor is there a fox problem. There is no Tooting hunt, no Wandsworth hunt and no Clapham hunt, but we can see foxes on their streets at night. If we want to control vermin we should work out how to deal with that problem. The idea that foxhunting controls the fox population is arrant nonsense.”

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