Quote#Love
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. … Harmony…
Quote byAldo Leopold · 1887–1948
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Conservation" (c. 1938); Published in Round River, Luna B. Leopold (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1966, p. 145-146..
English (original)
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. … Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators; you cannot conserve the waters and waste the ranges; you cannot build the forest and mine the farm. The land is one organism.
— Aldo Leopold
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