Monday, December 21, 2015

Aldo Leopold, "A Sand County Almanac"

Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness to heaven; one may never get there.

Pat Caddell, 1972

I knew this (McGovern's) campaign was too god-damn honest! It was bound to get us in trouble... Now I understand why the North Vietnamese wouldn't agree to elections in the South.

T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men"

Between the idea
And the reality
...
Falls the Shadow

Friday, December 4, 2015

Aldo Leopold, "A Sand County Almanac"

Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. 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.

Thursday, November 12, 2015

Abraham Lincoln, 1861

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Ken Boulding

Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

Monday, October 12, 2015

Ayn Rand, "The Fountainhead"

Now observe the results of a society built on the principle of individualism. This, our country. The noblest country in the history of men. The country of greatest achievement, greatest prosperity, greatest freedom.