A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
– Aldo Leopold
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- That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics. – Aldo Leopold
- I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness. – Aldo Leopold
- To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part. – Aldo Leopold
- I am convinced that most Americans of the new generation have no idea what a decent forest looks like. The only way to tell them is to show them. – Aldo Leopold
- Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. – Aldo Leopold
- It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it. – Aldo Leopold
- The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: ‘What good is it? – Aldo Leopold
- No social stability without individual stability. – Aldous Huxley
- To find stability within the world, one must first find stability within. – Tyler J Hebert
- Stability,- insisted the Controller, -œstability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this. – Aldous Huxley
- The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity. – Matthew Henry
- I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism – one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded. – Criss Jami
- The funny thing about an impossibility is that it tends to be a magnet for those who would prove it otherwise. – Richelle E Goodrich
- Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive-“ my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity. – Jonathan Franzen
- A man’s most valuable possession is his integrity. Unless he has no integrity. In which case, he may not have much of anything of value. – T Jay Taylor
- Community service has become a patch for morality. You can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck. – Timothy J Keller
- I would have been trying to pitch a concept about my community to someone that most likely was not a part of that community. – Lamar Tyler
- There is no commerce without community. And there is no community without commerce – Michele Jennae
- The betterment of a community directly depends on the betterment of lives in that Community. – Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
- Wise men are wise yet their actions always seem otherwise to others who always think of the otherwise – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- if you expose the wrong then also preserve the right.you are d salt of d earth – Ikechukwu Joseph
- To manifest the beauty of life, think beauty, dream beauty, and see the beauty in the simple things all around you. – Debasish Mridha
- An odd thing about beauty, however, is that it’s absence tends not to arouse our sympathy as much as other forms of privation do. – Jonathan Franzen
- Right time, right place, right people equals success.Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history. – Idries Shah
- There is no wrong answer. Even so, it is easy to receive wrong results, simply by asking the wrong question. – Brunonia Barry
- Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. – Mark Twain
- The fact that good people can be forced to do wrong doesn’t make them less good. But it also doesn’t make the wrong less wrong. – Ovadya ben Malka
- I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side. – GK Chesterton
- Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choices feels the least wrong. – Colleen Hoover
- you may be wrong to be right in the wrong direction, but, what is the wrong direction? – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- It is wrong to kill anyone. It is wrong to kill those who kill. It is wrong to kill the executioner. The laws on murder must be killed! – Charles Nodier
- On the matters where your country is wrong, don’t take side with your country! Because it is always wrong to be on the side of wrong! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- On the matters where your country is wrong, don’t take side with your country! Because it is always wrong to be on the side of wrong! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- So,- Wanda cried, -œa woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery? – Leopold von SacherMasoch
- A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. – Leopold Stokowski
- Leopold, like most men of power and prestige, was not so much interested in listening to what others had to say as he was in having an audience. – Jeremy Robinson
- You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood… – Leopold von SacherMasoch
- It is only man’s egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. – Leopold von SacherMasoch
- The moral of the tale is this: whoever allows himself to be whipped,deserves to be whipped. – Leopold von SacherMasoch
- There is stability in walking an uncertain path, because you never allow yourself to be misled by what you think you know. – AJ Darkholme