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Page 149
... early seventeenth century , and which even then displayed an ancestry going back many centuries more . One of Columbus ' sailors would have been a valuable able seaman aboard Farragut's ships . Even a sailor from the ship that took ...
... early seventeenth century , and which even then displayed an ancestry going back many centuries more . One of Columbus ' sailors would have been a valuable able seaman aboard Farragut's ships . Even a sailor from the ship that took ...
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... early American pioneers did not consider their actions as wasteful . They did not see , and could not possibly have seen , this country as it exists today . And when " the good old days " are viewed as the pioneers saw them , it is ...
... early American pioneers did not consider their actions as wasteful . They did not see , and could not possibly have seen , this country as it exists today . And when " the good old days " are viewed as the pioneers saw them , it is ...
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... early days by the reassuring platitude that " running water purifies itself . " Perhaps we simply didn't care . In any case we have used our creeks , rivers and lakes - the same ones from which we must draw much of our drinking water ...
... early days by the reassuring platitude that " running water purifies itself . " Perhaps we simply didn't care . In any case we have used our creeks , rivers and lakes - the same ones from which we must draw much of our drinking water ...
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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