 | Mark Sagoff - Philosophy - 2007
...instrumental value. More than a century ago, as England lost its last wild places, Mill condemned a world with nothing left to the spontaneous activity...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... | |
 | Herman E. Daly - Business & Economics - 2007 - 281 pages
...at all times in the presence of his species . . . Nor is their much satisfaction in contemplating a world with nothing left to the spontaneous activity...nature; with every rood of land brought into cultivation . . . every flowery waste or natural pasture plowed up, all quadrupeds or birds which are not domesticated... | |
 | Dale Jamieson - Philosophy - 2008 - 206 pages
...solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thought and aspirations . . . Nor is there much satisfaction in contemplating the...nature; with every rood of land brought into cultivation . . . every flowery waste or natural pasture ploughed up, all quadrupeds or birds which are not domesticated... | |
 | Fiona Becket, Terry Gifford - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 260 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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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... 
