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" Nor is there much satisfaction in contemplating the world with nothing left to the spontaneous activity of nature ; with every rood of land brought into cultivation which is capable of growing food for human beings ; every flowery waste or natural pasture... "
Valuing the Earth, second edition: Economics, Ecology, Ethics - Page 28
edited by - 1992 - 399 pages
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Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social ...

John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1904 - 626 pages
...without. Nor is there nmoa satisfaction in contemplating the worią with nothing left to the spontan* ti' activity of nature ; with every rood of land brought into cultivation, which ii capable of growing food for Ьдипи beings ; every flowery waste ornatanl pasture ploughed up,...
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English Prose: Selections, Volume 5

Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1907 - 814 pages
...and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without. Nor is there much satisfaction in contemplating the...world with nothing left to the spontaneous activity c' nature ; with every rood of land brought into cultivation which is capable of growing food for human...
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Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social ...

John Stuart Mill - Classical school of economics - 1909 - 1076 pages
...and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without Nor is there much satisfaction in contemplating the...to the spontaneous activity of nature ; with every row of land brought into cultivation, which is capable of growing foor for human beings ; every flowery...
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English Literature: With Illustrations from Poetry and Prose

Geraldine Emma Hodgson - English literature - 1923 - 328 pages
...and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without. Nor is there much satisfaction in contemplating the...human beings ; every flowery waste or natural pasture ploughed up; all quadrupeds or birds which are not domesticated for man's use exterminated as his rivals...
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Wilderness and Recreation--a Report on Resources, Values, and Problems ...

University of California (System). Wildland Research Center - Forests and forestry - 1962 - 372 pages
...the Western world when he wrote, "A world from which solitude is extirpated is a very poor ideal. . . Nor is there much satisfaction in contemplating the...nothing left to the spontaneous activity of nature." But Carl Sandburg has touched a specifically American attraction in his poem, "Wilderness": ". . .There...
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ORRRC Study Report, Issue 3

United States. Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission - National parks and reserves - 1962 - 382 pages
...the Western world when he wrote, "A world from which solitude is extirpated is a very poor ideal. . . Nor is there much satisfaction in contemplating the...nothing left to the spontaneous activity of nature." But Carl Sandburg has touched a specifically American attraction in his poem, "Wilderness": ". . .There...
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Public Outdoor Recreation Areas: Acreage, Use, Potential ..., Issues 1-4

Outdoor recreation - 1962 - 942 pages
...of the Western world when he wrote, "A world from which solitude is extirpated is a very poor ideal Nor is there much satisfaction in contemplating the...nothing left to the spontaneous activity of nature." But Carl Sandburg has touched a specifically American attraction in his poem, "Wilderness": "... There...
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The North Cascades: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, Second Session ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation - National parks and reserves - 1968 - 1036 pages
...recognized these needs when he said : A world from which solitude is extirpated is a very poor ideal » » * nor is there much satisfaction in contemplating the world with nothing left to spontaneous activity of nature. As an outdoorsman I know that solitude requires a wide dispersion of...
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The Nineteenth Century: A Monthly Review, Volume 5

Great Britain - 1879 - 1156 pages
...and aspirations, which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without. Nor is there much satisfaction in contemplating the...human beings ; every flowery waste or natural pasture ploughed up, all quadrupeds and birds which are not domesticated for man's use exterminated as his...
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The Twentieth Century, Volume 5

English periodicals - 1879 - 1162 pages
...and aspirations, which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without. Nor is there much satisfaction in contemplating .the...human beings; every flowery waste or natural pasture ploughed up, all quadrupeds and birds which are not domesticated for man's use exterminated as his...
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