“Ugliness is so grim, a little beauty, something that is lovely, I think, can help
create harmony which will lessen tensions." – Lady Bird Johnson





“Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as
well as what is economically expedient. 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





“The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover
new ways of thinking about them." – Sir William Bragg





“Getting on the subject of beautification is like picking up a tangled skein of wool.
All the threads are interwoven -- recreation and pollution and mental health, and
the crime rate, and rapid transit, and highway beautification, and the war on
poverty, and parks -- national, state and local. It is hard to hitch the conversation
into one straight line, because everything leads to something else."
– Lady Bird Johnson





“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





“When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to
solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know
it is wrong.” – R. Buckminster Fuller





“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.” – Aldo Leopold





“Every great oak was once a nut that stood its ground.” – Unknown





“Ugliness is so grim, a little beauty, something that is lovely, I think, can help
create harmony which will lessen tensions." – Lady Bird Johnson





“Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as
well as what is economically expedient. 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





“The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover
new ways of thinking about them." – Sir William Bragg





“Getting on the subject of beautification is like picking up a tangled skein of wool.
All the threads are interwoven -- recreation and pollution and mental health, and
the crime rate, and rapid transit, and highway beautification, and the war on
poverty, and parks -- national, state and local. It is hard to hitch the conversation
into one straight line, because everything leads to something else."
– Lady Bird Johnson





“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





“When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to
solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know
it is wrong.” – R. Buckminster Fuller





“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.” – Aldo Leopold





“Every great oak was once a nut that stood its ground.” – Unknown