uncultivation

A year of uncultivation, wildness, is not a lot, but it speaks eloquently of our willingness to organise economy around ecology, to 'keep house' within the limits of a world where we are guests more than owners.

Lecture: Ecology and Economy - University of Kent, Canterbury 2005

A year of uncultivation, wildness, is not a lot, but it speaks eloquently of our willingness to organise economy around ecology, to 'keep house' within the limits of a world where we are guests more than owners.

Lecture: Ecology and Economy - University of Kent, Canterbury 2005

I objected the dangers of ocean, and the distance of the mountains we saw, from Athens; a distance which, from the savage uncultivation of the country, was almost impassable.

The Last Man 2003

I hailed the wild Campagna, for every rood had been trod by man; and its savage uncultivation, of no recent date, only proclaimed more distinctly his power, since he had given an honourable name and sacred title to what else would have been a worthless, barren track.

The Last Man 2003

The English, by buying the slaves on their West India islands, took the money loss on themselves, but they threw back the islands to economic decay and uncultivation.

Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875

Compare as to the change wrought, Ro 6: 19. brier -- emblem of uncultivation (Isa 5: 6). myrtle -- Hebrew, Hedes, from which comes Hedassah, the original name of

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

No, the reader may seek out the author's exhibition of his uncultivation for himself.

The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories 1872

No, the reader may seek out the author's exhibitions of his uncultivation for himself.

An Entertaining Article 1870

We said 'stupid:' yet natural stupidity is by no means the character of Mahomet's Book; it is natural uncultivation rather.

Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

I hailed the wild Campagna, for every rood had been trod by man; and its savage uncultivation, of no recent date, only proclaimed more distinctly his power, since he had given an honourable name and sacred title to what else would have been a worthless, barren track.

III.10 1826