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... become extinct , while many thou- sands have diminished in extent of range to mere remnants of their former territories . The world has no more dodos - those huge flightless pigeons of Mauritius and adjacent islands in the Indian Ocean ...
... become extinct , while many thou- sands have diminished in extent of range to mere remnants of their former territories . The world has no more dodos - those huge flightless pigeons of Mauritius and adjacent islands in the Indian Ocean ...
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... become the seat of organized commonwealths . It is , there- fore , a matter of the first importance , that , in commencing the process of fitting them for permanent civilized occupation , the transforming operations should be so ...
... become the seat of organized commonwealths . It is , there- fore , a matter of the first importance , that , in commencing the process of fitting them for permanent civilized occupation , the transforming operations should be so ...
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... become the booty of beasts and birds of prey . But with stationary life , or rather with the pastoral state , man at ... becomes an assemblage of bald mountains , of barren , turfless hills , and of swampy and malarious plains . 176 ...
... become the booty of beasts and birds of prey . But with stationary life , or rather with the pastoral state , man at ... becomes an assemblage of bald mountains , of barren , turfless hills , and of swampy and malarious plains . 176 ...
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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