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... industrial cities , they lost out in the competition for land . The seventeenth century also witnessed the Great Fire of London and the Great Plague that affected much of Europe . Not until recently did anyone notice that , when London ...
... industrial cities , they lost out in the competition for land . The seventeenth century also witnessed the Great Fire of London and the Great Plague that affected much of Europe . Not until recently did anyone notice that , when London ...
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... industrial use of water is for cooling . When water is so used it is unaltered and can be used by another plant ... industries were using and re - using the water of the Mahoning River near Youngstown , Ohio , that it became too hot to ...
... industrial use of water is for cooling . When water is so used it is unaltered and can be used by another plant ... industries were using and re - using the water of the Mahoning River near Youngstown , Ohio , that it became too hot to ...
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... industrial chemists , the public officials , and most of the general public , when they heard us at all , said , " Nonsense ! Who cares about a little smog and smoke ? They are signs of full employment . What does a little sewage and ...
... industrial chemists , the public officials , and most of the general public , when they heard us at all , said , " Nonsense ! Who cares about a little smog and smoke ? They are signs of full employment . What does a little sewage and ...
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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