"Natural resources" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Instructor in Forestry, Yale University: A system of taxation which discriminates against timber, one of the chief natural resources of the ...
— Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest • Edward Tyson Allen
... depending on natural resources for subsistence, has retained to a great extent the ...
— The Forest • Stewart Edward White
... forests. The result is that, from an economic point of view, those two republics have become dependent upon other nations and races. In both republics the control of finances is in the hands of other nations, this being true notwithstanding the fact that the two countries have natural resources greater than other countries similar in size.... Mere abstract, unused education means little for a race or individual. An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction. We must not be afraid to pay the price of success ...
— Booker T. Washington - Builder of a Civilization • Emmett J. Scott and Lyman Beecher Stowe
... amount which can be developed upon the basis of the flowage of the streams for a period of two weeks in which the flow is the least," all the rest being allowed to escape unused. Van Hise, "Conservation of Natural Resources," p. 119.] ...
— Modern Economic Problems - Economics Vol. II • Frank Albert Fetter
... acquire preposterous notions of love, of happiness, from the furtive perusal of vulgar novels, or from the clandestine conversation of ignorant waiting-maids:—I dread that she should acquire, even from the enchanting eloquence of Rousseau, the fatal idea, that cunning and address are the natural resources of her sex; that coquetry is necessary to attract, and dissimulation to preserve the heart of man.—I would not, however, proscribe an author, because I believe some of his opinions to be false; I would ...
— Tales And Novels, Vol. 8 • Maria Edgeworth
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