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... plain , including Texas and Canada , contains not less than sixteen hundred thousand square miles , equal to one thousand million acres of land , fit for cultivation . Divided equally among the sixteen millions now living on it , every ...
... plain , including Texas and Canada , contains not less than sixteen hundred thousand square miles , equal to one thousand million acres of land , fit for cultivation . Divided equally among the sixteen millions now living on it , every ...
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... plain will , probably , grow up the hugest aggregations of people in the world . Before it reaches the density of England , it will contain one or more cities numbering ten mil- lions . Long before that period elapses , improvements in ...
... plain will , probably , grow up the hugest aggregations of people in the world . Before it reaches the density of England , it will contain one or more cities numbering ten mil- lions . Long before that period elapses , improvements in ...
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... plain as grotesque masses of sandstones , marls , & c . The worst part of the route was from Donner Station , twenty ... plains . This spur is thickly covered with fine pine timber - a treasure almost beyond price in such a region ; and ...
... plain as grotesque masses of sandstones , marls , & c . The worst part of the route was from Donner Station , twenty ... plains . This spur is thickly covered with fine pine timber - a treasure almost beyond price in such a region ; and ...
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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