I do not question that immigration has been a positive force in America but now there are no vast open lands for settling a rapidly expanding population.CHARLES GRADERMarblehead, MassachusettsSIR—I am reminded of John Kenneth Galbraith's argument in favour of migration as the only effective response to world poverty.
From the ancient ruins of Mesa Verde to the grandeur of Yosemite Valley and the vast open lands of the West, from the untamed wilderness of Alaska to our historic treasures in Washington, D.C., the public lands of the United States are amazing places.
Surprisingly, such stomach-churning, toe-curling torture takes place not in dingy, shadowy places, but mostly in vast, open village lands where the cheering crowd can fill a modest stadium.
The steppe is romantically imprinted on our minds as the land of vast open space, the land of nomadic people, and of ranging herds of animals.
From 2000 to 2010, this slice of Florida, just north of Daytona Beach, had the highest population growth in the state, spurred by construction as houses multiplied along vast stretches of open land.
· Russia is keen to attract overseas hunters to enjoy its vast tracts of open land, and foxhunting is on the rise in the US, where there are more than 150 recognised hunts.
We counted about 500 apartments in ten blocks, tightly packed together despite the vast stretches of open land all around.
These architects were drawn by the city's vast open tracts of land, its distance from the often oppressive conventions of traditional cities.
By the 1930s, the buffalo was all but extinct, the vast majority of Native Americans had been put on reservations, and western farmers had divided up and fenced off the once vast, wide-open land.
"For example, the middle of New York may be very crowded, but Greater New York is a vast, sprawling landscape with huge amounts of open land which are never out of sight of buildings".
At the beginning of the 19th century, Winson Green was a small hamlet on Birmingham Heath, a vast stretch of largely uncultivated, open land west of town.
