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593 Scientist Quotes
593 Scientist Quotes
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators... The land is one organism.
Aldo Leopold
Harmony
With land
A friend
Cherish
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A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, the stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
Aldo Leopold
A thing
Right
Preserve
The integrity
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Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.
Aldo Leopold
Tell me
Plat birthday
Man
Takes notice
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Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.
Aldo Leopold
Examine
Each question
Ethically
Aesthetically right
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the most fun lies in seeing and studying the unknown.
Aldo Leopold
Most fun
Lies
Seeing
Studying
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Aldo Leopold
Never had
So rare
A day
So rich
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how.
Aldo Leopold
Acts
Creation
Ordinarily reserved
Gods
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If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Great revolutions
The presence
Blacks
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Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
Alexis de Tocqueville
So enamored
Equality
Slavery
Freedom
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Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy
Socialism
Common
One word
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There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.
Alexis de Tocqueville
No country
The world
Be provided
The laws
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Life is to be entered upon with courage.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Life
Be entered upon
With courage
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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Liberty
Be established
Morality
Faith
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I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Loved freedom
Believe
All times
Worship it
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The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Language
Strongest
Most durable
Unite mankind
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Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Central government
Worship uniformity
Relieves
Inquiry
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Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Dangerous
Violence employed
Well-meaning people
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Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Society
Endangered
Great profligacy
A few
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Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort
Alexis de Tocqueville
Any individual
Any period
His life
Preoccupied
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In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
Alexis de Tocqueville
In politics
Shared hatreds
Friendships
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What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Most important
Democracy
Great fortunes
Same hands
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On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Close inspection
Religion
Not fear
Absolute government.
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The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave
Alexis de Tocqueville
The man
Freedom
Born
A slave
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Past
Illuminate
The future
Spirit walks
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Alexis de Tocqueville
More wonderful
Being free
Harder
Learn
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The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune
Alexis de Tocqueville
The happy
Powerful
Into exile
Surer guarantees
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There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Two things
Democratic people
Very difficult
War
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We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Alexis de Tocqueville
We succeed
In enterprises
Demand
Positive qualities
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everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Everybody feels
Evil
Has courage
Seek
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Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Christianity
The companion
Its conflicts
Divine source
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Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Society
Nothing united
Common envy
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Examples of integrated aquaculture exist combining small-scale livestock keeping, vegetable growing and fish ponds.
Fatima Denton
Examples
Integrated agriculture
Small scale
Livestock keeping
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Stranded assets are insufficiently researched from the perspective of developing regions such as Africa.
Fatima Denton
Stranded assets
Insufficiently researched
Perspective
Developing regions
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Angola’s economy is mainly driven by its oil sector, yet it imports up to 80 % of refined petroleum products for domestic consumption.
Fatima Denton
Economy
Mainly driven
Oil sector
Import
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African countries cannot delay in managing risks and costs will escalate if strategies are not in place.
Fatima Denton
Countries
Cannot delay
Managing risk
Costs
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An emerging risk for Africa is stranded assets,stranding can endanger the continent‘social and economic fortunes and reverse current gains.
Fatima Denton
Emerging risk
Stranded assets
Can endanger
Continent's social
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African countries lack the infrastructure to simply switch overnight to cleaner fuels and technologies
Fatima Denton
Countries lack
The infrastructure
Simply switch
Cleaner fuels
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Land is the basis of human livelihoods. Land is identity. Land is heritage. Land is resource. Land is survival. If we ignore this, we do so at our peril.
Fatima Denton
Land
Human livelihood
Identity
Heritage
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Indigenous communities are effective stewards of sustainable land management. They are part of the solution.
Fatima Denton
Indigenous communities
Effective stewards
Land management
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Land degradation including desertification is affecting populations in dry lands especially in the Sahel - making ecology, economy and people more vulnerable.
Fatima Denton
Land degradation
Desertification
Affecting populations
Dry lands
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Land is already struggling due to human activities. But, we can change things if we see land as a huge resource for both adaptation and mitigation to climate change impacts.
Fatima Denton
Land
Already
Human activities
Change things
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There are many areas of convergence between developing countries and the developed world.
Fatima Denton
Many areas
Convergence
Between
Developing countries
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Adaptation is not the preserve of poor countries. Partnership makes sense, if only, from the perspective of enlightened self interest.
Fatima Denton
Adaptation
Preserve
Poor countries
Partnership
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Soil infertility is a key driver of poverty and can affect food systems and food security in quite extraordinary ways.
Fatima Denton
Soil infertility
Key driver
Poverty
Food systems
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Millions of people in Africa tend to rely on livelihoods that are influenced by timely and accurate climate information.
Fatima Denton
Millions
People
Livelihoods
Influenced
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Fatima Denton
Innovation
Critical
Optimizing
Health
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Partnerships are key for an efficient digital economy.
Fatima Denton
Partnerships
Are key
Efficient
Digital economy
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ICT can help deliver on ocean conservation and sustainable development through satellite monitoring.
Fatima Denton
Can help
Deliver
Ocean conservation
Sustainable development
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I started this mindset change thinking approach was to give young people the opportunity to self belief in thier abilities to become solution providers.
Richard Munang
Mindset change
Thinking approach
To give
Young people
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Many at times we do not know who we are. Discover yourself today.
Richard Munang
At times
Not know
Discover
Yourself today
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