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The excerpt below from ''Enough Good Men'' in the chapter ''Dirt, People and History'' is a fine example of how Dr. Burke related historical events to the environment around us. The only aspect missing is this is merely the printed word, and misses the timing and the inflection in the way Dr. Burke presented it: | The excerpt below from ''Enough Good Men'' in the chapter ''Dirt, People and History'' is a fine example of how Dr. Burke related historical events to the environment around us. The only aspect missing is this is merely the printed word, and misses the timing and the inflection in the way Dr. Burke presented it: | ||
Origin of "A Pact With the Unborn" Dr. Albert E. Burke - 1961 | Origin of "A Pact With the Unborn" Dr. Albert E. Burke - 1961 | ||
That kind of freedom grew among a people with elbowroom; few Americans in a big land. With plenty of elbowroom, twenty-three million Americans back in 1889 were free to turn their Oklahoman upside down irresponsibly; and they didn't mind too much when the United States government stepped in to help them. Today's much larger American population has less of that "elbowroom," on farmlands, in mines, in good water, good air, or in any natural resource. Today's American has less, and poorer quality resources to work and live with. We are no longer free to do as we please with them; but many among us today still mind very much that, since stepping in to help deal with problems like that emergency in 1890, the government has never really stepped out of what were once our private affairs. | That kind of freedom grew among a people with elbowroom; few Americans in a big land. With plenty of elbowroom, twenty-three million Americans back in 1889 were free to turn their Oklahoman upside down irresponsibly; and they didn't mind too much when the United States government stepped in to help them. Today's much larger American population has less of that "elbowroom," on farmlands, in mines, in good water, good air, or in any natural resource. Today's American has less, and poorer quality resources to work and live with. We are no longer free to do as we please with them; but many among us today still mind very much that, since stepping in to help deal with problems like that emergency in 1890, the government has never really stepped out of what were once our private affairs. | ||