"There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements."

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Source : Aldo Leopold, Susan Flader, J. Baird Callicott (1991). “The river of the mother of God and other essays”, Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Aldo Leopold

#Doubt Quotes #Pavement Quotes #Soil Quotes

“On June 14, 1998, I pushed off under quiet gray skies from Nags Head, N.C, in the American Pearl, a 23 foot long boat made of plywood and fiberglass. I planned to row 3,637 miles across the North Atlantic to France. I was alone. There were no chase vessels. No one planned to drop food or equipment to me along the way. The physical goal was easy to explain: I was attempting to do something no American and no woman had ever done - to row solo across an ocean.”
“I meditate and do yoga. I sit cross-legged and try not to levitate too much.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Leadership shows judgment, wisdom, personal appeal and proven competence.”
“I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.”
“Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.”
“Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings.”
“Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.”
“He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.”

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