Top 1200 Land Conservation Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all.

Rather than setting property taxes on the value of land and improvements, I'd advocate a plan to set rates based on land values across the entire neighborhood.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite, who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?

Conservation is not just an ideal that we read about; it works.

Nothing is more conservative than conservation

My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In this my native land – in the land of my sires – I am degraded without fault as an alien and an outcast.

My childhood landscape was not land but the end of the land - the cold, salt, running hills of the Atlantic. I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own.

The reality is that the founding fathers were land speculators. The fact was that you couldn't vote in this country if you did not own land, and that was basically you had to be a white man who owned land. Now how did they get that land? They basically had to steal it from someone, and that would be probably the Indians. And so most of the initial founding fathers were, while they may have had some really nice ideas about democracy, they had a lot of issues with people of color. They had a lot of issues with people who held things that they coveted.

There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.

Conservation is for guilty people on Park Avenue with poodles and Pekingeses.

This land is your land, this land is my land

I'm not a poster boy for Conservation International. I'm a working member of the board.

If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.

We may... affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of preserving the balance of power on the side of liberty and public virtue is to make the acquisition of land easy to every member of society; to make a division of the land into small quantities, so that the multitude may be possessed of landed estates.

Conservation of energy also protects our environment.

We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships.

In conservation, the motto should always be 'never say die'.

I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation.

For thousands of years, we Jews have been nourished and sustained by a yearning for our historic land. I, like many others, was raised with a deep conviction that the day would never come when we would have to relinquish parts of the land of our forefathers. I believed and to this day still believe in our people's eternal and historic right to this entire land.

Where we hope to land (and where we do land, though only for a fleeting moment, enough for tired wings to catch the wind anew) is a 'there' which we thought of little and knew of even less.

Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land.

But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.

What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.

Conservation must become before recreation.

There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country.

She soon learned, though, that giving weight to other people's opinions was creative nihilism; it was like being banished from the Land of No Words and exiled to the Land of All Bullshit.

The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency.

Conservation means development as much as it does protection.

The most fundamental strength of India is that we are a land of seekers. Seekers of truth and liberation. Not a land of believers. We are a godless nation.

The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency

Part of the issue around communal land, which became a matter of controversy, is that we are saying that this land must go back to communities. Not chiefs and traditional leaders.

A duck call in the hands of the unskilled is one of conservation's greatest assets

You know what amazes me about UFO's? They never land at the White House. They always land at laramie, Wyoming. Thiry miles out, where they're seen by one farmer.

The drama of the sky dance is enacted nightly on hundreds of farms, the owners of which sigh for entertainment, but harbor the illusion that it is to be sought in theaters. They live on the land, but not by the land.

I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.

As a Republican, I am proud of my party's rich legacy of conservation.

First we must learn to love nature. Then comes conservation.

America the Beautiful, or so you used to be, Land of the Pilgrims' pride, I'm glad they're not here to see, Babies piled in dumpsters, abortion on demand, Oh, sweet land of liberty, your house is on the sand.

Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.

I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.

Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].

Anything we can do to educate the younger generation about conservation of energy is great.

If conservation isn't conservative, then words have no meaning at all.

I'm a little different from all those conservation types.

Conservation is an American value, and it is lacking from this bill.

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.

Energy conservation is a responsibility that falls on every country and individual.

The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.

I love the ocean and I'm passionate about conservation and the environment.

You need to understand this. We did not think we owned the land. The land was part of us. We didn't even know about owning the land. It is like talking about owning your grandmother - you can't own your grandmother. She just is your grandmother. Why would you talk about owning her?

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.

We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops.

My ultimate idea would be to get a lot of big investors together, buy some land outside Orlando, Florida, and start up Rabbitt Land.

Environment conservation without stagnating development is the objective of our government.

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

Pebble is a piece of sacred ground. They say it's the greatest meeting of land and water in the world. This course was heaven designed - just the way it fits on the land.

'Keeper' is about fathers, ultimately. and also conservation, commitment and ambition.

Tea had come as a deliverer to a land that called for deliverance; a land of beef and ale, of heavy eating and abundant drunkenness; of gray skies and harsh winds; of strong-nerved, stout-purposed, slow-thinking men and women. Above all, a land of sheltered homes and warm firesides - firesides that were waiting - waiting for the bubbling kettle and the fragrant breath of tea.

The hated system of land tenure, so contributory to general unrest in Asia, has been abolished. Every farmer is now accorded the right and dignity of ownership of the land he long has tilled.