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Page 111
... effect on manners the great distances they live from each other has ! Consider one of the last settlements in its first view ; of what is it composed ? Europeans who have not that sufficient share of knowledge they ought to have in ...
... effect on manners the great distances they live from each other has ! Consider one of the last settlements in its first view ; of what is it composed ? Europeans who have not that sufficient share of knowledge they ought to have in ...
Page 184
... effect on the current was very great indeed . The floating ice and drift - wood would catch on the barrier of the dam , and so increase its effect in holding back the waters . . . . Let us consider how man's interference has changed the ...
... effect on the current was very great indeed . The floating ice and drift - wood would catch on the barrier of the dam , and so increase its effect in holding back the waters . . . . Let us consider how man's interference has changed the ...
Page 221
... effect it will have over a period as short as five years , no one knew . " What effect will it have on willows ? " someone asked . " We think the willow will come back . " " When ? " " Perhaps in a year , perhaps in five years ...
... effect it will have over a period as short as five years , no one knew . " What effect will it have on willows ? " someone asked . " We think the willow will come back . " " When ? " " Perhaps in a year , perhaps in five years ...
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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