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Page 232
... Park Service , the core of Yellow- stone , the nation's oldest and largest National Park , has dete- riorated into a scandalous slum , the consequence of poor com- mercial management over a period of years and of soft and sloppy ...
... Park Service , the core of Yellow- stone , the nation's oldest and largest National Park , has dete- riorated into a scandalous slum , the consequence of poor com- mercial management over a period of years and of soft and sloppy ...
Page 336
... park system . Simply stated , the flaw is this : In accepting the idea of a park as a place to be preserved and protected against human destruc- tion , we may be encouraging the idea that any place which is not a park may be abandoned ...
... park system . Simply stated , the flaw is this : In accepting the idea of a park as a place to be preserved and protected against human destruc- tion , we may be encouraging the idea that any place which is not a park may be abandoned ...
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... park ! Or possibly that it is not a park at all , but simply their home - and who throws trash on the floor at home ? Or possibly it is a park and a home , for in a small country one cannot afford the luxury of fragmenting one's living ...
... park ! Or possibly that it is not a park at all , but simply their home - and who throws trash on the floor at home ? Or possibly it is a park and a home , for in a small country one cannot afford the luxury of fragmenting one's living ...
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Awareness of the Living World | 3 |
MANS DOMINION | 97 |
THE FLAMING SWORD | 267 |
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abundance acres agriculture Aldo Leopold American animals areas beauty become birds buffalo busy monster Canaan Mountain century Charles Galton Darwin chemical cities civilization coal conservation conservationism crops desert Ducktown E. E. Cummings earth ecological ecologist economic environment environmental farm feet fertility fields fish forest future Gerard Piel grass green ground grow growth hills human hundred increase Indians industrial insects John Muir kill lake land land ethic landscape live look man's Mark Van Doren means ment miles million Mississippi mountain National Park nature nature's ocean parathion perhaps pesticides plain plants poison pollution population portions preserve problem produce region reservoirs rich river road rock selection soil spring streams things Thomas Cole thousand timber tion town trees valley vast vegetable Wasichus waste wild wilderness wind woods