"Love of nature and appreciation of the beauties of the landscape were foreign to the rural population. The inhabitants of the cities brought them to the countryside. It was the city-dwellers which began to appreciate the land as nature, while the countrymen valued it only from the point of view of its productivity for hunting, lumbering…
"Love of nature and appreciation of the beauties of the landscape were foreign to the rural population. The inhabitants of the cities brought them to the countryside. It was the city-dwellers which began to appreciate the land as nature, while the countrymen valued it only from the point of view of its productivity for hunting, lumbering, crop raising and cattle breeding."
This is an extract from the book Human Action, published in 1949 by Ludwig von Mises. It is from Chapter XXII, "The Non-Human Original Factors of Production," section "The Myth of the Soil". In my view, the Austrian School of Economics is a humble and common-sense approach that relies on individual methodology and avoids any form of collectivism, such as apocalyptic environmentalism.
"Love of nature and appreciation of the beauties of the landscape were foreign to the rural population. The inhabitants of the cities brought them to the countryside. It was the city-dwellers which began to appreciate the land as nature, while the countrymen valued it only from the point of view of its productivity for hunting, lumbering, crop raising and cattle breeding."
This is an extract from the book Human Action, published in 1949 by Ludwig von Mises. It is from Chapter XXII, "The Non-Human Original Factors of Production," section "The Myth of the Soil". In my view, the Austrian School of Economics is a humble and common-sense approach that relies on individual methodology and avoids any form of collectivism, such as apocalyptic environmentalism.