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Page 134
... less frequent , and dry arroyos take their place . Scrub bushes even are hard to find , and the only fuel to be had during marches of twenty miles or more , is the dry chips of the buffalo dung . Both to the north and south , this line ...
... less frequent , and dry arroyos take their place . Scrub bushes even are hard to find , and the only fuel to be had during marches of twenty miles or more , is the dry chips of the buffalo dung . Both to the north and south , this line ...
Page 283
... less sufficient for the comfortable passing of those who wish to use it . It is certain that as the distance from the interior to the circum- ference of towns shall increase with the enlargement of their popu- lation , the less ...
... less sufficient for the comfortable passing of those who wish to use it . It is certain that as the distance from the interior to the circum- ference of towns shall increase with the enlargement of their popu- lation , the less ...
Page 400
... less pay than the other , in the long run it will be he who gets the work to do . Those who find the bad conditions supportable will be willing to work harder and for less reward ; in a broad sense of the term they are more efficient ...
... less pay than the other , in the long run it will be he who gets the work to do . Those who find the bad conditions supportable will be willing to work harder and for less reward ; in a broad sense of the term they are more efficient ...
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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