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For the past thirty years, Professor Sax has been promoting a view of the law that would permit the government to force private landowners to maintain their property in an undeveloped state without any compensation for the benefit of Nature. His goal has been "to
propel nature's economy onto the legal agenda" where the state may "subordinate private [property] use to demands for the maintenance of natural services, even where the private owner's property is left valueless." These theories of Professor Sax and other proponents of his philosophy might best be viewed as the Romantic period of takings scholarship because they are grounded in an idealized view of Nature and divorced from science, history, and the roots and branches of the common law of property.'

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

1. Animal roles
2. Animals in culture
3. Animal welfare
4. Endangered species
5. Nature
6. properties
7. wildlife