Quotes by Spring The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right only when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the community, and the community includes the soil, waters, fauna, and flora, as well as people. Aldo Leopold practice spring integrity He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps on it, unknowing. He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance. Aldo Leopold despair eye spring Our grandfathers were less well-housed, well-fed, well-clothed than we are. The strivings by which they bettered their lot are also those which deprived us of [Passenger] pigeons. Perhaps we now grieve because we are not sure, in our hearts, that we have gained by the exchange. The gadgets of industry bring us more comforts than the pigeons did, but do they add as much to the glory of the spring? Aldo Leopold nature heart spring There are degrees and kinds of solitude. I know of no solitude so secure as one guarded by a spring flood; nor do the geese, who have seen more kinds and degrees of aloneness than I have. Aldo Leopold degrees solitude spring He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance. Aldo Leopold mud knees spring For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols Aldous Huxley religious idols spring The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth! Aleister Crowley healthy earth spring The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf. Aleksandar Hemon spring tree world Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte. Alex Haley four west spring The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people, of a nation, of a rare, in large majestic and abiding things which lifts them up to the skies. Alexander Crummell greatness sky spring All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society. Alexander Crummell real success spring Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland. Alexander Dubcek deportation summer spring Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train of calamities inseparable from it. I might show that it is fatal to religion and morality; that it tends to debase the mind, and corrupt its noblest springs of action. I might show that it relaxes the sinews of industry, clips the wings of commerce, and introduces misery and indigence in every shape. Alexander Hamilton mind spring wings To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character. Alexander Hamilton political spring character God is His own motive. His love is not drawn out by our loveableness, but wells up, like an artesian spring, from the depths of His nature. Alexander MacLaren christian god spring Logically, faith comes first, and love next; but in life they will spring up together in the soul; the interval which separates them is impalpable, and in every act of trust, love is present; and fundamental to every emotion of love to Christ is trust in Christ. Alexander MacLaren soul spring love-is A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. Alexander Pope learning education spring Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest. Alexander Pope hope spring men Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Alexander Pope simple home spring Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source. Alexander Pope deeds judging spring «1234567891011»