Quotes About Ownership

I feel like a Mac store! I have a Canadian iPhone, an American iPhone and an iPad. I'm constantly downloading music to iTunes.

Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.

I'm against people downloading music.

The most common format of music on an iPod is 'stolen.'

There's zero correlation between owning music and being a greater music lover or musician than the next person.

Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.

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.

When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they can only take it away.

All we have to do to create the future is to change the nature of our conversations, to go from blame to ownership, and from bargaining to commitment, and from problem solving to possibility.

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.

Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults. After growing up on a dairy farm, everything in life seemed easy

Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.

My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature has gifted this rich biological diversity to us. We will not allow it to become the monopoly of a handful of corporations. We will keep it as the basis of our wealth and our sustenance.

The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.

It's human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned

Most, it would seem to me, do not care for nature and would sell their share.

It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.

It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity.

The natural resources of the world do not belong to any person, organization, collective, or so-called nation.

If you are lucky you will have the opportunity in your life to be owned by a good piece of land.