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Page ix
... limited resources , ravage landscapes , or pollute air and water . Captivated by the new material power and economic wealth unleashed by technology , they simply did so by the way , in pursuit of the goddess Progress . They were joined ...
... limited resources , ravage landscapes , or pollute air and water . Captivated by the new material power and economic wealth unleashed by technology , they simply did so by the way , in pursuit of the goddess Progress . They were joined ...
Page xiv
... Limited for portions of " The History , " from The Next Million Years , by Charles Galton Darwin , copyright 1952 by Charles Galton Darwin . Dover Publications , Inc. , for portions of Peter Kalm's Travels in North America , ed . by ...
... Limited for portions of " The History , " from The Next Million Years , by Charles Galton Darwin , copyright 1952 by Charles Galton Darwin . Dover Publications , Inc. , for portions of Peter Kalm's Travels in North America , ed . by ...
Page 94
... limited quantities ; yet , it is thought that a more careful survey of the mineral deposits of the Sierra Nevada will develop a respect- able amount of iron ores , though probably not to be compared with the enormous resources of the ...
... limited quantities ; yet , it is thought that a more careful survey of the mineral deposits of the Sierra Nevada will develop a respect- able amount of iron ores , though probably not to be compared with the enormous resources of the ...
Contents
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