“Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ecological relationships is - or should be - the basis of modern conservation programs, for it is useless to attempt to preserve a living species unless the kind of land or water it requires is also preserved. So delicately interwoven are the relationships that when we disturb one thread of the community fabric we alter it all - perhaps almost imperceptibly, perhaps so drastically that destruction follows.” ShouldKindWaterCommunityEnvironmentModernLandCenturyAwarenessCreaturesProgramDestructionBasesRelationSpeciesFocusedUselessPreservesThreadFabricEcologyConservation20th CenturyEcologicalLiving Creatures Author:Rachel Carson
“It is not just contemporary industrial society that is dysfunctional; it is civilization itself. We humans are born to be creatures of the land and the sea and the stars; we are relations to the animals, cohorts to the plants. Our well being, and the well-being of the very planet depend on our pursuance of our given place within the natural world.” WorldHumansWellsGivenStarsBornNaturalAnimalSeaLandPlanetsDependsCivilizationCreaturesRelationPlantContemporaryWell BeingNatural World Author:Chellis Glendinning
“Perhaps the time has come to formulate a moral code which would govern our relations with the great creatures of the sea as well as with those on dry land. That this will come to pass is my dear wish.” WellsWishMoralSeaLandCreaturesRiversRelationDearFishesBoatCodeDryLakesFishingMoral CodeDry Land Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau
“Generally biobanking is really designed more for urban areas, with the offsets being offered in non-urban areas. It may be able to help in some circumstances, but it depends a lot on what we're talking about here. But biobanking does allow for offsets in relation to a specific species, as well as specific ecological communities as well as land. It's quite a flexible tool.” WellsMayDoeHelpingAbleCommunityTalkingLandDependsCircumstancesAreasToolsRelationSpeciesUrbanFlexibleEcologicalUrban Areas Author:Frank Sartor
“Now it must be asked if we can comprehend why comets signify the death of magnates and coming wars, for writers of philosophy say so. The reason is not apparent, since vapor no more rises in a land where a pauper lives than where a rich man resides, whether he be king or someone else. Furthermore, it is evident that a comet has a natural cause not dependent on anything else; so it seems that it has no relation to someone's death or to war. For if it be said that it does relate to war or someone's death, either it does so as a cause or effect or sign. De Cometis” IfsMenDoeSaidWarReasonPhilosophySeemsCausesNaturalRichLandEffectsKingsRelationRelateDependentEvidentRich ManCometsVapor Author:Albertus Magnus
“The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture. The continent we inhabit is to be physic andfood for our mind, as well as our body. The land, with its tranquilizing, sanative influences, is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education, and bring us to just relations with men and things.” MenMindWellsBodyCultureUnited StatesInfluenceLandRelationErrorsTraditionalFantasticRemedyContinentsScholasticsTraditional Education Book:Essays and Lectures Source: Essays and Lectures
“Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.” UseFeelingsValuesSupportLandHabitRelationShopsPatriotismShoppingHuntingDesksMining Book:Essays and Lectures Source: Essays and Lectures
“To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say 'Cast down your bucket where you are.'” MenNextWhiteRaceDoorsLandConditionsDependsImportanceRelationCastsNeighborFriendlyWhere You AreSouthernUnderestimateWhite ManBucketsCultivatingForeign LandsNext Door Neighbors Book:The Booker T. Washington Reader Source: The Booker T. Washington Reader
“Our company has only been active in Beijing and Shanghai, two very market-dominated cities. This was an advantage. Land is purchased here in public auctions, in a transparent way. When you do real estate development outside Beijing and Shanghai it is good to have "guanxi" - good relations within the local government.” WayTwoRealGovernmentCitiesCompanyLandDevelopmentAdvantageRelationActiveLocalsEstatesTransparentBeijingAuctionsLocal GovernmentShanghai Author:Zhang Xin
“There are instances: [Henry David] Thoreau read [John] Wordsworth, [John] Muir read Thoreau, Teddy Roosevelt read Muir, and you got national parks. It took a century for this to happen, for artistic values to percolate down to where honoring the relation of people's imagination to the land, or beauty, or to wild things, was issued in legislation.” PeopleHappensValuesImaginationLandCenturyRelationInstanceArtisticParksLegislationTeddyNational ParksWild ThingsWordsworthDavid Thoreau Author:Robert Hass