Sentences with phrase «pillaging nature»

The Spaniards invaded the region by pillaging nature; they appropriated vast tracts of land, monopolizing the best soil, introduced livestock, and enslaved the natives for clearing forests, creating pastureland, and tending livestock, thus establishing land - cattle fiefs.

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Many Christians did not agree with this decision, and in 457 «Jerusalem was occupied by an army of monks [where] in the name of the one incarnate nature, they pillaged, they burnt, they murdered; the Sepulchre of Christ was defiled with blood.»

Science is caught, then, between the possibility of slavery to will (in the person of stereotypically gruff kill - it - or - pillage - it space Marines types) and the hope of serving some other prime mover in its own mastery of nature.

Timber pillaging resumed briefly under the Soviets, but when the Nazis invaded, nature fanatic Hermann Göring decreed the entire preserve off limits.

Other families in the land were not so fortunate as to have two such sensible parents, and as happens in countries being pillaged by rivals or nature, the weak — the elderly, widows and orphans — were as desperate as ever on the colonized peninsula.

We are not using the world that nature has given us, we are raping it and pillaging it, and the denial of some right wingers notwithstanding, there will be and already have been consequences, including the horrific impoverishment of the third world as a consequence of overpopulation.