National Wilderness Preservation Act: Hearings Before the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Eighty-fifth Congress, First Session, on S. 1176, a Bill to Establish on Public Lands of the United States a National Wilderness Preservation System for the Permanent Good of the Whole People, to Provide for the Protection and Administration of the Areas Within this System by the Existing Federal Agencies and for the Gathering and Dissemination of Information to Increase the Knowledge and Appreciation of Wilderness for Its Appropriate Use and Enjoyment by the People, to Establish a Wilderness Preservation Council, and for Other Purposes. June 19 and 20, 1957

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1957 - 444 стор.
 

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Сторінка 404 - The lands of the State, now owned or hereafter acquired, constituting the forest preserve as now fixed by law, shall be forever kept as wild forest lands. They shall not be leased, sold or exchanged, or be taken by any corporation, public or private, nor shall the timber thereon be sold, removed or destroyed.
Сторінка 14 - A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.
Сторінка 74 - ... to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.
Сторінка 127 - In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth.
Сторінка 177 - Such regulations shall provide for the preservation, from injury or spoliation, of all timber, mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or wonders within said park, and their retention in their natural condition.
Сторінка 111 - S. 424, of course, deals only with those lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management in the Department of the Interior.
Сторінка 146 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Сторінка 132 - ... millions of stars. There ne'er were such thousands of leaves on a tree, Nor of people in church or the Park, As the crowds of the stars that looked down upon me, And that glittered and winked in the dark. The Dog, and the Plough, and the Hunter, and all, And the star of the sailor, and Mars, These shone in the sky, and the pail by the wall Would be half full of water and stars. They saw me at last, and they chased me with cries, And they soon had me packed into bed; But the glory kept shining...
Сторінка 1 - Congress to secure for the American people of present and future generations the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness.
Сторінка 13 - AN ACT To establish a National Wilderness Preservation System for the permanent good of the whole people, and for other purposes.

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