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Page 273
... Land being cheap and labor dear , and the land co - operating powerfully with the labor , it was profitable to draw as much as possible from the land . Labor is now com- paratively cheaper and land dearer . Where labor has risen in ...
... Land being cheap and labor dear , and the land co - operating powerfully with the labor , it was profitable to draw as much as possible from the land . Labor is now com- paratively cheaper and land dearer . Where labor has risen in ...
Page 300
... land . The Federal Govern- ment should seriously devote itself to this task , realizing that utilization of waterways and water - power , forestry , irrigation , and the reclamation of lands threatened with overflow , are all inter ...
... land . The Federal Govern- ment should seriously devote itself to this task , realizing that utilization of waterways and water - power , forestry , irrigation , and the reclamation of lands threatened with overflow , are all inter ...
Page 372
... land ethic is the fact that our educational and economic system is headed away from , rather than toward , an intense consciousness of land . Your true modern is separated from the land by many mid- dlemen , and by innumerable physical ...
... land ethic is the fact that our educational and economic system is headed away from , rather than toward , an intense consciousness of land . Your true modern is separated from the land by many mid- dlemen , and by innumerable physical ...
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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