...then was, there are remaining only the bones of the wasted body, as they may be called, discernible in small islands; all the richer and softer parts of...and the mere skeleton of the land being left. But in former days, and in the primitive state of the country, what are now mountains were only regarded as...

...Mediterranean world. In Critias, Plato compared the land of Attica to the "bones of a wasted body ... the richer and softer parts of the soil having fallen away, and the mere skeleton being left." In ancient times, still according to Plato, the buildings had "roofs of timber cut from...

...on what generations before did to Greece, 'there are remaining only the bones of the wasted body ... all the richer and softer parts of the soil having...away, and the mere skeleton of the land being left. . . . now losing the water which flows off the bare earth into the sea . . . there may be observed...

...with what then was, there are remaining only the bones of the wasted body, as they may be called, — all the richer and softer parts of the soil having...away, and the mere skeleton of the land being left." * 1 Critias, III. The deterioration ot the climate of the motherregion of the race is particularly...

...was, there are remaining in small islets only the bones of the wasted body, as they may be called; all the richer and softer parts of the soil having fallen away, and the mere skeleton of the country being left. But in former days, and in the primitive state of the country, what are now mountains...

...the deforestation of ancient Attica, which bared the landscape like "the bones of the wasted body ... all the richer and softer parts of the soil having...away, and the mere skeleton of the land being left" (Jowett 1892, 530). Much of the Mediterranean was deforested in biblical and Roman times, while the...

...Mediterranean world. In Critias, Plato compared the land of Attica to the "bones of a wasted body . . . I have ever witnessed, the only battle-field I ever trod while the battle was rag being left." In ancient times, still according to Plato, the buildings had "roofs of timber cut from...

...the first mention of erosion in Western literature, in one of Plato's dialogues, the Ctitias: ". . . all the richer and softer parts of the soil having fallen away," says Critias, about three hundred and fifty years before the birth of Christ, "and the mere skeleton...

...that agricultural activities had transformed the land of Attica into the 'bones of a wasted body... the richer and softer parts of the soil having fallen away, and the mere skeleton left.' However, the origin of the modern debate on sustainable development probably dates from at least...

...what then was, there are remaining only the bones of the wasted body; all the richer and softer pans of the soil having fallen away, and the mere skeleton...being left. But in the primitive state of the country, the mountains were high hills covered with soil, and plains were full of rich earth, and there was...