 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works - 1978 - 1810 pages
...species. Indeed, Leopold expressed the rationale for this type of legislation in 1949 when he wrote: "Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do auay with them. Now we face the question of whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth Its... | |
 | 1988 - 316 pages
...determine all the values and all the uses of the land. In the foreword to A Sand County Almanac he stated: Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for...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... | |
 | Hans Huth - 1990 - 368 pages
...countered with arguments of their own. Many were influenced by the words of the naturalist, Aldo Leopold: Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for...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... | |
 | Max Oelschlaeger - 1991 - 506 pages
...without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot. Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for...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... | |
 | Stephen B. Scharper, Hilary Cunningham - 1993 - 124 pages
...sense of affection, optimism, and hope.. .. Noel J. Brown, Director, UN Environmental Programme, 1990 Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for...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... | |
 | James I. McClintock - 1994 - 200 pages
...beginning of Leopold's book: There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot . . . [W]ild things were taken for granted until progress...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... | |
 | John Ross, Beth Ross - 1998 - 256 pages
...without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot. Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for...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... | |
 | Mary Clifford - 1998 - 564 pages
...land health is yet to be born."16(pp 19S-196) In the forward to A Sand County Almanac, Leopold wrote, Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for...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... | |
 | Chris Maser, Charles R. Beaton, Kevin M. Smith - 1998 - 310 pages
...air, clean water, natural areas, and so on. This sentiment was already voiced by Aldo Leopold in 1949: "We face the question whether a still higher 'standard...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... | |
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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... 
