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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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Development: Doctrines of development

Stuart Corbridge - Business & Economics - 2000 - 628 pages
...individuaL but which society can ill do without. Nor is there much satisfaction in contemplating a world with nothing left to the spontaneous activity...which is capable of growing food for human beings: everv tlowerv waste or natural pasture ploughed up. all quadrupeds or birds which are not domesticated...
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Environmental Ethics: An Introduction with Readings

John Benson - Nature - 2000 - 308 pages
...not only good for the individuaL hut which society could ill do withouL Nor is there much sahsfachon in contemplating the world with nothing left to the...every rood of land brought into cultivation, which is capehle of growing food for human heings; every flowery waste or natural pesture ploughed up. all quedrupeds...
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Sustainability: Life Chances and Livelihoods

M. R. Redclift - Business & Economics - 2000 - 216 pages
...the presence of his species. 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. ... If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the...
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Environmental Ethics: An Introduction with Readings

John Benson - Nature - 2000 - 308 pages
...individuaL hut which societv could ill do without. Nor is :here much satisfection in contempleting the world with nothing left to the spontaneous activity of nature; with every rood of iasd hrougnt into cultivation, which is cepahle of growing food for human heings; everv flowerv waste...
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W.S. Jevons: Critical Responses, Volume 3

Sandra Peart - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 296 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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Environmentalism: Critical Concepts, Volume 2

David Pepper, Frank Webster, George Revill - Environmentalism - 2003 - 612 pages
...express concern about the destruction to the environment that was being caused by economic progress: 145 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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David Ricardo: Critical Responses, Volume 4

Terry Peach - Economics - 2003 - 370 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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Friedrich A. Hayek: 2nd series

John Cunningham Wood, Robert D. Wood - Economics - 2004 - 458 pages
...the presence of his species. 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 the spontaneous activity of nature."59 But why, then, do I consider Hayek's revision of Bentham (from the Greatest Happiness of...
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Adam Smith's Moral Philosophy: A Historical and Contemporary Perspective on ...

Jerry Evensky - Business & Economics - 2005 - 364 pages
...satisfaction in contemplating the world with nothing left to spontaneous activity of nature; with every rod of land brought into cultivation, which is capable...human beings; every flowery waste or natural pasture ploughed up, all quadrupeds or birds which are not domesticated for man's use exterminated as rivals...
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John Stuart Mill's Political Philosophy

John R. Fitzpatrick - Philosophy - 2006 - 191 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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