From Sea to Shining Sea: A Report on the American Environment, Our Natural HeritageU.S. Government Printing Office, 1968 - 304 pages |
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Page 11 - We must not only protect the countryside and save it from destruction, we must restore what has been destroyed and salvage the beauty and charm of our cities. Our conservation must be not just the classic conservation of protection and development, but a creative conservation of restoration and innovation.
Page 196 - A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.
Page 217 - The Business and Defense Services Administration of the Department of Commerce is...
Page 17 - Where is the Lord that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt ? And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
Page 11 - I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty...
Page 17 - Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television, and the chance to find a pasque-flower is a right as inalienable as free speech.
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Page 104 - Our cities grow by accident— by whim of the private developer and public agencies. A farm is sold and begins raising houses instead of potatoes— then another farm—; forests are cut; valleys are filled; streams are buried in storm sewers; kids overflow the schools— here a new school is built— there a church.
Page 27 - Fulfillment" is probably the embracing word; more fulfillment and less frustration for more human beings. We want more varied and fuller achievement in human societies, as against drabness and shrinkage. We want more variety as against monotony. We want more enjoyment and less suffering. We want more beauty and less ugliness. We want more adventure and disciplined freedom, as against routine and slavishness. We want more knowledge, more interest, more wonder, as against ignorance and apathy.