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" Their arguments are curiously like those of the devil, devised for the destruction of the first garden — so much of the very best Eden fruit going to waste; so much of the best Tuolumne water and Tuolumne scenery going to waste. Few of their statements... "
Conserving Living Natural Resources: In the Context of a Changing World - Página 4
por Bertie J. Weddell - 2002 - 426 páginas
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The Yosemite

John Muir - 1912 - 378 páginas
...only righteous thing to do with the people's parks is to destroy them bit by bit as they are able. Their arguments are curiously like those of the devil,...Tuolumne water and Tuolumne scenery going to waste. Few of their statements are even partly true, and all are misleading. Thus, Hetch Hetchy, they say,...
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The Writings of John Muir: The mountains of California

John Muir - 1916 - 356 páginas
...righteous thing to do with the people's parks is to destroy them bit by bit as they are able. Then - arguments are curiously like those of the devil, devised...Tuolumne water and Tuolumne scenery going to waste. Few of their statements are even partly true, and all are misleading. Thus, Hetch Hetchy, they say,...
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The Writings of John Muir: The mountains of California

John Muir - 1917 - 356 páginas
...only righteous thing to do with the people's parks is to destroy them bit by bit as they are able. Their arguments are curiously like those of the devil,...for the destruction of the first garden — so much 289 of the very best Eden fruit going to waste; so much of the best Tuolumne water and Tuolumne scenery...
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Sierra Club Bulletin, Volumen6

1908 - 548 páginas
...of bad arguments to prove that the only righteous thing for Hetch-Hetchy is its destruction. These arguments are curiously like those of the devil devised...going to waste, so much of the best Tuolumne water. Very few of their statements are even partly true, and all are misleading. Thus, HetchHetchy, they...
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Department of the Interior and related agencies appropriations for ..., Parte9

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Dept. of the Interior and Related Agencies - 1988 - 1294 páginas
...only righteous thing to do with the people's parks to' to destroy them bit by bit as they are able. Their arguments are curiously like those of the devil,...Tuolumne water and Tuolumne scenery going to waste. . . . These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism; seem to have a perfect contempt...
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Department of the Interior and related agencies appropriations for 1989 ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies - 1988 - 1278 páginas
...the only righteous thing to do with the peoples parks Is to destroy them bit by bit as they are able. Their arguments are curiously like those of the devil...going to waste; so much of the best Tuolumne water and Tuolunv ne scenery going to waste . . . These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism;...
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Voices in the Wilderness: American Nature Writing and Environmental Politics

Daniel G. Payne - 1996 - 204 páginas
...Hetchy Valley," Muir refuted, one by one, all the arguments for damming the valley, likening them to "those of the devil, devised for the destruction of the first garden" (Yosemite 715). Throughout the essay he posed the question starkly as one of good vs. evil, portraying...
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The Great New Wilderness Debate

J. Baird Callicott, Michael P. Nelson - 1998 - 716 páginas
...completely on their heads, listen to John Muir attack the dam's defenders. "Their arguments," he wrote, "are curiously like those of the devil, devised for...best Tuolumne water and Tuolumne scenery going to waste."1" For Muir and the growing number of Americans who shared his views, Satan's home had become...
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Conserving Living Natural Resources: In the Context of a Changing World

Bertie J. Weddell - 2002 - 452 páginas
...likewise despoiled. Their arguments are curiously like those of the devil, devised for the destructk of the first garden - so much of the very best Eden fruit going to waste; so much the best Tuolumne water and Tuolumne scenery going to waste. (Mu 1912:256,257,260) at controlling the...
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Environmentalism: Critical Concepts, Volumen2

David Pepper, Frank Webster, George Revill - 2003 - 612 páginas
...completely on their heads, listen to John Muir attack the dam's defenders. "Their arguments." he wrote, "are curiously like those of the devil, devised for...best Tuolumne water and Tuolumne scenery going to waste."'0 For Muir and the growing number of Americans who shared his views, Satan's home had become...
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