789 Quotes About Land

You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.

The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.

To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits.

The discussion about food doesn't make any sense without discussion at the same time of land, land use, land policy, fertility maintenance, and farm infrastructure maintenance.

The connections between people and land are dangerously oversimplified and mainly technological.

Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.

For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.

Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea.