A Documentary History of Conservation in America |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 69
Page 169
... present there was sometimes not a single bird upon them . About sixty or seventy years ago , a single person could kill eighty ducks in a morning ; but at present you frequently waited in vain for a single one . A Swede above ninety ...
... present there was sometimes not a single bird upon them . About sixty or seventy years ago , a single person could kill eighty ducks in a morning ; but at present you frequently waited in vain for a single one . A Swede above ninety ...
Page 283
... present width is already less nearly adequate to the present business than the former was to the former busi- ness ; obstructions are more frequent , movements are slower and oftener arrested , and the liability to collision is greater ...
... present width is already less nearly adequate to the present business than the former was to the former busi- ness ; obstructions are more frequent , movements are slower and oftener arrested , and the liability to collision is greater ...
Page 321
... present will determine the solutions of the then present , and there is no use giving ourselves ulcers by worrying about problems that we really do not have to solve . There is even high ethical authority for this point of view in the ...
... present will determine the solutions of the then present , and there is no use giving ourselves ulcers by worrying about problems that we really do not have to solve . There is even high ethical authority for this point of view in the ...
Contents
Awareness of the Living World | 3 |
MANS DOMINION | 97 |
THE FLAMING SWORD | 267 |
Copyright | |
2 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
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