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Page 68
... clear sunlight , at no great distance , an immense volume of clear , sparkling water projected into the air to the height of one hundred and twenty - five feet . " Geysers ! geysers ! " exclaimed one of our com- pany , and , spurring ...
... clear sunlight , at no great distance , an immense volume of clear , sparkling water projected into the air to the height of one hundred and twenty - five feet . " Geysers ! geysers ! " exclaimed one of our com- pany , and , spurring ...
Page 88
... clear water as we can desire , and we may dig wells and find water where we list . The temper of the air of New - England is one special thing that commends this place . Experience doth manifest that there is hardly a more healthful ...
... clear water as we can desire , and we may dig wells and find water where we list . The temper of the air of New - England is one special thing that commends this place . Experience doth manifest that there is hardly a more healthful ...
Page 329
... clear option : Are we to live well only for a short period , or must we cut back economic growth in favor of long - term survival for the species ? For the most part we appear to have adopted the former course of action , and it is by ...
... clear option : Are we to live well only for a short period , or must we cut back economic growth in favor of long - term survival for the species ? For the most part we appear to have adopted the former course of action , and it is by ...
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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