By our greed, we had despoiled the environment and were consuming a disproportionate share of the world's wealth and resources. |
Since arriving back, he said he seen numerous examples of beauty spots being despoiled. |
There was also wide-ranging destruction in the countryside, particularly affecting the fortress towns, which were pillaged and despoiled. |
When I spotted a deer on a hike, I took it as a sort of assurance that not everything has been despoiled and that the natural order remains at least somewhat intact. |
Some of the country's finest beaches are despoiled during the summer, with discarded nappies, bottles, crisp packets and even animal carcases. |
It is also one of unredeemed and unredeemable ugliness, of a landscape despoiled and defiled. |