“More than thirty other islands in the vicinity of San Juan are for the most part and for the same reason depopulated, and the land laid waste.”
History of the Indies (1561)
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Bartolomé de las Casas21
Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer 1474–1566Related quotes
“The Corsican ogre has just landed at the Juan Gulf.”
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Le Moniteur Universel, March 10, 1815.
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Aldo Leopold book A Sand County Almanac
Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "Conservation Esthetic", p. 176.
Source: A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
Context: The trophy-recreationist has peculiarities that contribute in subtle ways to his own undoing. To enjoy he must possess, invade, appropriate. Hence the wilderness that he cannot personally see has no value to him. Hence the universal assumption that an unused hinterland is rendering no service to society. To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
American Notes— At the Golden Gate http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/AmericanNotes/goldengate.html (1891). <br class="br">Other works
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
"The Path of the Law," Address to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts at the dedication of the new hall of the Boston University School of Law (8 January 1897), published in Harvard Law Review, Vol. 10 (25 March 1897).
1890s
“Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason […] When we waste time, we waste happiness.”
L. Frank Baum (1856–1919) Children's writer, editor, journalist, screenwriter
