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“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.”

May Land Economics Universal Curiosity Ethical Mechanism Conservation

Book:Round River

Source: Round River

“By the laws of the land, people who come looking for jobs in America are illegal. But by the laws of economics, they are following the logic and laws of economics when they leave Guatemala and go to Mexico, leave Mexico and come to the U.S., leave Africa and go to Spain and Europe looking for jobs.”

People Jobs America Law Land Europe Economics Logic Following Illegal Mexico Spain Leaving Me Guatemala Looking For A Job Jobs In America

Author:Benjamin Barber

“Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.”

Stuff Land Advice Economics Financial

Author:Will Rogers

“As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.”

Men Country Natural Land Produce Demand Economics Property Reap Private Property Property Rights Landlord Economic Inequality Real Property

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. With notes, and an additional vol., by D. Buchanan

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. With notes, and an additional vol., by D. Buchanan

“As Charles Darwin said,'The economy shown by Nature in her resources is striking,'' says the Spirit. 'All wealth comes from Nature. Without it, there wouldn't be any economics. The primary wealth is food, not money. Therefore anything that concerns the handling of the land also concerns me.”

Said Spirit Wealth Economy Land Resources Concern Economics Primaries

Book:Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

Source: Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

“That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.”

Earth Community Land Respect Ethics Concepts Economics Ecology Extensions

Book:Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

Source: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

“Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.”

Men Wealth Land Economics Ill Inequality Decay Prey Stoops

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds - where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough - a modest living- and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities.”

“A land ethic for tomorrow should...stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life.”

Should Helping Land Tomorrow Ethics Resources Economics Logic Stress Chains Oneness Ecology

Book:The Quiet Crisis

Source: The Quiet Crisis

“With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family's painful disappointments and powerful resilience. The Land of Steady Habits combines Austen's shrewd mastery of domestic economics with Updike's compassion for the melancholy commuter to make something elegant, fresh, and brilliant.”

Powerful Compassion Land Habit Economics Painful Disappointment Resilience Brilliant Wit Dry Prose Melancholy Steady Mastery Elegant Uncommon Austen Impeccable

Author:Maggie Shipstead