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Page 223
... increases of urban density , residential and business , as well as the increase in the number of private motor cars . And the lack of space to move in is not dimin- ished by the dedication of ever larger areas of the city to widened ...
... increases of urban density , residential and business , as well as the increase in the number of private motor cars . And the lack of space to move in is not dimin- ished by the dedication of ever larger areas of the city to widened ...
Page 253
... increased crowding of our cities and our conurbations has been referred to , but what of the great outdoors ? In 1930 ... increase in disposable income ( and hence in means of transportation and in leisure ) becomes a much more important ...
... increased crowding of our cities and our conurbations has been referred to , but what of the great outdoors ? In 1930 ... increase in disposable income ( and hence in means of transportation and in leisure ) becomes a much more important ...
Page 254
... increasing is again an illustration that increase in the disposable income is perhaps more closely related to our own view of " overpopulation " than is the population itself . From 1940 to 1967 the number of miles flown has gone from ...
... increasing is again an illustration that increase in the disposable income is perhaps more closely related to our own view of " overpopulation " than is the population itself . From 1940 to 1967 the number of miles flown has gone from ...
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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