 | United States. Congress. House Appropriations - 1973 - 1644 lapas
...is dealing with these larger issues? Admiral RICKOVER. Not very well, sir. Rachel Carson has said : The "control of nature'' is a phrase conceived in...that nature exists for the convenience of man. We have pursued the. mastery of nature as if we ourselves were not a portion of that natui-e. We have... | |
 | Stephen R. Fox - 1985 - 452 lapas
...ones. At the end of the book she summarized her case in terms that recalled Muir's central insight: "The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in...supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man." Carson also placed the issue in a political context by describing the apparent collusion between universities... | |
 | Lewis L. Gould - 1988 - 336 lapas
...Congress and to spread her findings. "The 'control of nature,' " she wrote at the end of Silent Spring, "is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal...supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man." Rachel Carson succumbed to cancer in April 1964 at the age of fifty-six.14 By assembling a lucid and... | |
 | Nancy Tuana - 1989 - 268 lapas
...Anticipating some of the recent, more overtly feminist critiques, Carson wrote in the early 1960's that "The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in...supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man." Arguing that we were poisoning the entire planet with pesticides in our efforts to 'control' insects... | |
 | Roderick Frazier Nash - 1989 - 306 lapas
...paragraph of Silent Spring made the same point another way. "The 'control of nature,'" Carson wrote, "is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal...supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man." In its place Carson proposed "reasonable accommodation" between insects and people; ethics, as a restraining... | |
 | Bob Pepperman Taylor - 1992 - 208 lapas
...proper relationship between civilization and the natural world. As Carson concludes Silent Spring, "The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in...supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man."5 The technological and administrative optimism of progressive conservationism is based on the... | |
 | David Stewart, Lee Stewart - 1992 - 292 lapas
...also concerned with the adverse effects of technology, wrote these words many years ago, and I quote: The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of a Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience... | |
 | Matt Cartmill - 1996 - 352 lapas
...He will end by destroying the earth." It ends with an image of science itself as a killer ape-man: The "control of nature" is a phrase conceived in arrogance,...supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man ... It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern... | |
 | Michael E. Zimmerman - 2023 - 462 lapas
...the overuse of pesticides was an example of Western humanity's misguided attempt to dominate nature: "The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in...supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man." Another influential counterculturalist, Herbert Marcuse, argued that since efforts to dominate internal... | |
 | Yaron Ezrahi, E. Mendelsohn, Howard P. Segal, Howard Segal - 1994 - 238 lapas
...past but also newly enunciated in the present. She identified an attitude and outlook as the culprit: "The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in...supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man."16 By bringing the focus to the concepts of the control and domination of nature, Rachel Carson... | |
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control of nature" is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man. 
