The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.
Interpretation
The Earth belongs to everyone and is meant for our work and sustenance.
Thomas Jefferson's quote emphasizes the idea that the Earth is a shared resource meant for all of humanity. It suggests that we have a responsibility to both labor upon the land and to live harmoniously within it, highlighting the interconnectedness of people and nature and the importance of stewardship over our planet.
In practice
At an environmental conference discussing sustainability.
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
βWe must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves.
The Earth is blue... how wonderful. It is amazing
I have always felt that the best gardens aspired to coppice and that the best woods have all the elements of the very best gardens.
I am always more interested in people than plants. Nature doesn't make gardens, people make gardens. And the story of a garden is always the story of a person.
It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.
And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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