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Page 97
... Civilization has meant , for nature , not only celebration by man but also interference , domination , and even ... civilization ; civilization , however , is powered by technology and embodied in its multifarious products . Thus ...
... Civilization has meant , for nature , not only celebration by man but also interference , domination , and even ... civilization ; civilization , however , is powered by technology and embodied in its multifarious products . Thus ...
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... civilization . I have endeavoured to guard my- self against the enthusiastic partiality which believes our civiliza- tion to be the most precious thing that we possess or could acquire , and thinks it must inevitably lead us to ...
... civilization . I have endeavoured to guard my- self against the enthusiastic partiality which believes our civiliza- tion to be the most precious thing that we possess or could acquire , and thinks it must inevitably lead us to ...
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... civilization , until the impoverishment , with which his exhaustion of the natural resources of the soil is threatening him , at last awakens him to the necessity of preserving what is left , if not of restoring what has been wantonly ...
... civilization , until the impoverishment , with which his exhaustion of the natural resources of the soil is threatening him , at last awakens him to the necessity of preserving what is left , if not of restoring what has been wantonly ...
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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