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“But in fact as knowledge expands globally it is being lost locally. This is the paramount truth of the modern history of rural places everywhere in the world. And it is the gravest problem of land use: Modern humans typically are using places whose nature they have never known and whose history they have forgotten; thus ignorant, they almost necessarily abuse what they use.”

World Humans Facts Use Problem Lost Known Modern Land Abuse Forgotten Ignorant Paramount Modern History Land Use

Author:Wendell Berry

“High-tech employers recognize that we will only be as successful as the employees that we attract. When it comes to transportation, environmental, housing and land use decisions, we don't view investments as tax and spend, but rather as invest and prosper.”

Use Growth Nature Decision Views Successful Land Taxes Smart Investment Environmental Employee Conservation Housing Employers Transportation Land Use Smart Growth

Author:Carl Guardino

“We have an arsenal of ideas about land use possibly as dangerous to human life on the planet as the use of nuclear arms.”

Humans Ideas Use Land Dangerous Planets Arms Nuclear Human Life Arsenal Nuclear Arms Land Use

Author:Janet Kauffman

“As with nearly all proposed development standards, the goal is to encourage efficient land use, flexibility and a wide variety of housing types while reducing the potential for negative impacts.”

Use Goal Land Type Development Standards Negative Impact Wide Variety Efficient Flexibility Housing Reducing Land Use

Author:Bill Vaughan

“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.”

Use Land Policy Discussion Farms Infrastructure Maintenance Fertility Land Use

Author:Wendell Berry

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

Kind Use Land Limits Capitalism Acknowledge Farming Land Use

Author:Wendell Berry

“Planners and designers should encourage as much diversity in human habitats as they find in animal habitats. It is not possible to resolve all conflicts or to gain all ends. Choices have to be made. Different aspects of the public good should be stressed in different places. To achieve variety in land use patterns, there should also be a variety of relationships between the professions, not an institutionalized decision-making tree. Relationships between the constructive professions should, therefore, be deconstructed.”

“If, on the other hand, conservationists are willing to insist on having the best food, produced in the best way, as close to their homes as possible, and if they are willing to learn to judge the quality of food and food production, then they are going to give economic support to an entirely different kind of land use in an entirely different landscape. This landscape will have a higher ratio of caretakers to acres, of care to use. It will be at once more domestic and more wild than the industrial landscape.”

Source: Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)

“Two things hold promise of improving those lights. One is to apply science to land-use. The other is to cultivate a love of country a little less spangled with stars, and a little more imbued with that respect for mother-earth - the lack of which is, to me, the outstanding attribute of the machine-age.”

Littles Two Country Use Light Age Earth Mother Stars Land Promise Machines Two Things Attributes Improving Outstanding Mother Earth Land Use

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)

“Today we find ourselves faced with the imminent end of the era of cheap oil, the prospect (beyond the recent bubble) of steadily rising commodity prices, the degradation of forests, lakes and soils, conflicts over land use, water quality, fishing rights and the momentous challenge of stabilising concentrations of carbon in the global atmosphere.”

“The road to conservation is paved with good intentions that often prove futile, or even dangerous, due to a lack of understanding of either land or economic land use.”

Use Understanding Economic Land Dangerous Prove Intention Dues Conservation Good Intentions Lack Of Understanding Land Use

Author:Aldo Leopold