#ch

We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#achieve #any #aspirations #harmony #higher

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#geese #make #march #spring #summer

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#each #economically #ethically #examine #expedient

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning. ↗

— Mikhail Lermontov

#cunning #else #glory #happy #happy people

Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French. ↗

— Alan Jay Lerner

#back #better #everyone #french #here

It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. ↗

— Alan Jay Lerner

#enormous #exterior #face #flabby #grant

But change must always be balanced with some degree of consistency. ↗

— Ron D. Burton

#balanced #change #consistency #degree #must

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little. ↗

— Max Lerner

#change #fifty #little #much #real

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide. ↗

— Max Lerner

#government #means #suicide #technology #world

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions. ↗

— Max Lerner

#civilization #consumers #get #our #ourselves