| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1963 - 1112 pages
...Leopold. In his famous book "A Sand County Almanac" the celebrated conservationist stated : "We often 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 nnd respect. * * * That land is a community,... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1963 - 136 pages
...Leopold. In his famous book "A Sand County Almanac" the celebrated conservationist stated : "We often 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. * * * That land is a community,... | |
| 1953 - 1224 pages
...reckless and arrogant ignorant who demand not that they be heard; but that they and only they be heard. CONSERVATION IS GETTING nowhere because it is incompatible...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. There is no other way for... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries - 1969 - 1958 pages
...with the land unless and until fie thinks of land as more than a mere possession. As Leopold said : We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When *t ** land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use It with tore and respect. To Leopold,... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1970 - 380 pages
...children's serenity and security. "Conservation is getting nowhere," he wrote in "A Sand County Almanac," "because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept...commodity belonging to us. "When we see land as a commitnitii to which we belong; we may begin to use it with love and respect. There is no other way... | |
| 1977 - 1012 pages
...the foreword oiSand County Almanac 'Tie summarizes his basic principles, among them his belief that "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." Near the beginning of... | |
| United States. Congress. House Government operations - 1971 - 1302 pages
...ask that they be made part of the hearing record. Some years ago Aldo Leopold wrote, "We abuse the 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. There is no other way for... | |
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