#ch

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#cannot #cherish #chop #friend #hand

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it. ↗

— Giacomo Leopardi

#begins #completely #disenchanted #disgusted #does

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind. ↗

— Giacomo Leopardi

#found #hatred #life #mankind #philosophy

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing. ↗

— Giacomo Leopardi

#art #because #centuries #disciplines #else

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. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#because #begin #belong #belonging #commodity

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