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Page 170
... leaves , which diminishes the wood and timber con- siderably ; and in places where the dead leaves had been burnt for several years in succession the old trees only were left , which being cut down , there remained nothing but a large ...
... leaves , which diminishes the wood and timber con- siderably ; and in places where the dead leaves had been burnt for several years in succession the old trees only were left , which being cut down , there remained nothing but a large ...
Page 204
... leaves of the young corn became less stiff and erect ; they bent in a curve at first , and then , as the central ribs of strength grew weak , each leaf tilted down- ward . Then it was June , and the sun shone more fiercely . The brown ...
... leaves of the young corn became less stiff and erect ; they bent in a curve at first , and then , as the central ribs of strength grew weak , each leaf tilted down- ward . Then it was June , and the sun shone more fiercely . The brown ...
Page 359
... leaf and blossom . Shade in summer , and shelter for nesting birds . Nuts in autumn for hungry squirrels . And a beauty forever , with its haze of new leaves in the spring ; its mass of green , fluttering in the breeze , pattering in ...
... leaf and blossom . Shade in summer , and shelter for nesting birds . Nuts in autumn for hungry squirrels . And a beauty forever , with its haze of new leaves in the spring ; its mass of green , fluttering in the breeze , pattering in ...
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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