“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. There is no other way for land to survive the impact of mechanized man, nor for us to reap from it the aesthetic harvest it is capable, under science, of contributing to culture.”

— Aldo Leopold , book A Sand County Almanac

Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, Foreword, p. viii.

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“We abuse land because we see 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.”

Aldo Leopold book A Sand County Almanac

Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, Foreword, p. viii.
Context: 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. There is no other way for land to survive the impact of mechanized man, nor for us to reap from it the aesthetic harvest it is capable, under science, of contributing to culture.

“Our ways as Indigenous people go hand in hand with this land, because we are the land. All of us are the land.”

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“Zuma is standing between us and our enemy. Move out of the way. Zuma must pave the way because they [whites] are the one who stole our land. … White people are going to return our land the same way Zuma will return our money. White people must never think we have abandoned the land question. We will never abandon it. We are the land, our identity is our land. We are nothing without our land. … What we do with it is none of your business. Solomon Mahlangu died for this land.”

Julius Malema (1981) South African political activist

On 16 April 2016, addressing a large gathering at the University of Pretoria’s Mamelodi Campus, where the EFF had a memorial lecture on the life of Solomon Mahlangu, ‘White people must stop being cry-babies’: Malema http://businesstech.co.za/news/general/120579/white-people-must-stop-being-cry-babies-malema/ (16 April 2016)

“Under no circumstances must we touch land belonging to fellahs or worked by them.”

David Ben-Gurion (1886–1973) Israeli politician, Zionist leader, prime minister of Israel

Written statement (1920), as quoted in .
Context: Under no circumstances must we touch land belonging to fellahs or worked by them. Only if a fellah leaves his place of settlement, should we offer to buy his land, at an appropriate price.

“We didn't land on Plymouth Rock. The rock was landed on us.”

Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist

Speech at Founding Rally http://www.panafricanperspective.com/mxoaaufounding.html of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (28 June 1964)
Context: We are African, and we happened to be in America. We're not American. We are people who formerly were Africans who were kidnapped and brought to America. Our forefathers weren't the Pilgrims. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock. The rock was landed on us. We were brought here against our will. We were not brought here to be made citizens. We were not brought here to enjoy the constitutional gifts that they speak so beautifully about today.

“God said this is our land, land in which we flourish as people… we want our cattle to get fat on our land so that our children grow up in prosperity; and we do not want the fat removed to feed others.”

Jomo Kenyatta (1893–1978) First prime minister and first president of Kenya

From a speech given in Nyeri, Kenya, 26 July 1952.

“Every land which belongs to God is our land.”

Muhammad Iqbál (1877–1938) Urdu poet and leader of the Pakistan Movement

As quoted in Islam and Nationalism, Dr. Ali Mohammed Naqvi . Also translated as: "All land belongs to Muslims, because it belongs to their God. in : JPRS Report: Near East & South Asia, 93067 Foreign Broadcast Information Service, 1993 https://books.google.com/books?id=rki6AAAAIAAJ

“All land belongs to the Muslims, because it belongs to their God.”

Muhammad Iqbál (1877–1938) Urdu poet and leader of the Pakistan Movement

Source: Quoted from Elst, Koenraad (1992). Negationism in India: Concealing the record of Islam.

“In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood.”

Shashi Tharoor (1956) Indian politician, diplomat, author

"The Shashi Tharoor column: The creation of India," 2001

“What is proposed herein is that we have no right, nor any ethical justification, for clearing land or using wilderness while we tread over lawns, create erosion, and use land inefficiently. Our responsibility is to put our house in order. Should we do so, there will never be any need to destroy wilderness.”

Bill Mollison (1928–2016) Australian permaculturist

Source: Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), chapter 3.10

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