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Page 214
... growth was now slashed clean to make charcoal . If this had been the end , the forest would somehow have started making a comeback . But the hill people looked at this cut - over land , no longer useful to the lumberman , and decided it ...
... growth was now slashed clean to make charcoal . If this had been the end , the forest would somehow have started making a comeback . But the hill people looked at this cut - over land , no longer useful to the lumberman , and decided it ...
Page 264
... growth , there will be an added growth of at least 1 per cent a year in the number of workers . The result is that we are almost " condemned " to a rise in our total output of 4 per cent a year . The only escape , it seems , would be a ...
... growth , there will be an added growth of at least 1 per cent a year in the number of workers . The result is that we are almost " condemned " to a rise in our total output of 4 per cent a year . The only escape , it seems , would be a ...
Page 265
... growth had been only $ 100 - billion . We were the same nation , with the same energy , in those preceding 13 years ... growth to a larger base every year , we have reached the point where our growth in one year is half the total output ...
... growth had been only $ 100 - billion . We were the same nation , with the same energy , in those preceding 13 years ... growth to a larger base every year , we have reached the point where our growth in one year is half the total output ...
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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