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Page 122
... cities will be very populous , and spread over a wide surface . In our central plain will , probably , grow up the hugest aggregations of people in the world . Before it reaches the density of England , it will contain one or more cities ...
... cities will be very populous , and spread over a wide surface . In our central plain will , probably , grow up the hugest aggregations of people in the world . Before it reaches the density of England , it will contain one or more cities ...
Page 200
... cities . Gashed earth , culm banks , dead trees and streams putrid with chemicals , refuse and coal dust distinguish the mines . Cities seem to pride themselves on turning their river banks or waterfronts into majestic privies . Here ...
... cities . Gashed earth , culm banks , dead trees and streams putrid with chemicals , refuse and coal dust distinguish the mines . Cities seem to pride themselves on turning their river banks or waterfronts into majestic privies . Here ...
Page 322
... cities sorely need is a systems ap- proach to pollution : a computer analysis of everything that a total environment - greater Los Angeles , for example — is taking in and giving out via air , land , water . Only then can cities make ...
... cities sorely need is a systems ap- proach to pollution : a computer analysis of everything that a total environment - greater Los Angeles , for example — is taking in and giving out via air , land , water . Only then can cities make ...
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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