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... nature in this manner , we have a distinct but most poetical sense in the mind . We mean the integrity of impres- sion made by manifold natural objects . It is this which distin- guishes the stick of timber of the wood - cutter from the ...
... nature in this manner , we have a distinct but most poetical sense in the mind . We mean the integrity of impres- sion made by manifold natural objects . It is this which distin- guishes the stick of timber of the wood - cutter from the ...
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... nature is unmeaning , since man has no power to do anything else than follow nature ; all his actions are done through and in obedience to some one or many of nature's physical or mental laws . In the other sense of the term , the ...
... nature is unmeaning , since man has no power to do anything else than follow nature ; all his actions are done through and in obedience to some one or many of nature's physical or mental laws . In the other sense of the term , the ...
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... nature buffs and urban escapees , does not at its core conflict with the conception of man as the master of nature . The entire range of controversy over conservation can be viewed as more or less friendly disagreement among allies over ...
... nature buffs and urban escapees , does not at its core conflict with the conception of man as the master of nature . The entire range of controversy over conservation can be viewed as more or less friendly disagreement among allies over ...
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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