789 Quotes About Land

The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.

There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land.

When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may see it with love and respect. - Perhaps such a shift of values can be achieved by reappraising things unnatural, tame, and confined in terms of things natural, wild, and free.

The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations

Time was when education moved toward soil, not away from it.

What conservation education must build is an ethical underpinning for land economics and a universal curiosity to understand the land mechanism. Conservation may then follow.

The problem, then, is how to bring about a striving for harmony with land among a people many of whom have forgotten there is any such thing as land, among whom education and culture have become almost synonymous with landlessness. This is the problem of conservation education.

Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.

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.