 The book is referenced in the film "The Last of England" (1987), directed and written by Derek Jarman.The expression is also the title of the last track of the 1968 jazz record, "America the Beautiful", by arranger Gary McFarland, and it is a line in the Kaiser Chiefs' song "Ruby".It was also used as the title of a 1971 BBC "Horizon" documentary on predictions of ecological disaster, focusing on the work of Paul Ehrlich.