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... continued to improve , and affluence spread ever more widely in the industrialized countries . As we think about this gradual change during the last few decades and a while before , we realize that even a well informed person tended to ...
... continued to improve , and affluence spread ever more widely in the industrialized countries . As we think about this gradual change during the last few decades and a while before , we realize that even a well informed person tended to ...
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... continued to paint their bodies different colours , to improve and beautify their bows and arrows and to make with sharp - edged stones fishing boats or clumsy musical instruments ; in a word , so long as they undertook only what a ...
... continued to paint their bodies different colours , to improve and beautify their bows and arrows and to make with sharp - edged stones fishing boats or clumsy musical instruments ; in a word , so long as they undertook only what a ...
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... continued into an indefinite period of invention , of the discovery of new techniques for controlling the human environment . This , the believers in progress say , will go on and on without any visible termination in a future not too ...
... continued into an indefinite period of invention , of the discovery of new techniques for controlling the human environment . This , the believers in progress say , will go on and on without any visible termination in a future not too ...
Contents
Awareness of the Living World | 3 |
MANS DOMINION | 97 |
THE FLAMING SWORD | 267 |
Copyright | |
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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