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... reason . I would like to ask what seems to me an eminently reasonable question : Why shouldn't we spoil the wilderness ? Have these people ever stopped to think what the wilderness is ? It is precisely what man has been fighting against ...
... reason . I would like to ask what seems to me an eminently reasonable question : Why shouldn't we spoil the wilderness ? Have these people ever stopped to think what the wilderness is ? It is precisely what man has been fighting against ...
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... reason . Spare them not merely from the reason that a fine tree is one of the most beautiful works of Nature , although that is a good and valid reason ; but also for the far higher reason of the duty which you owe posterity . Science ...
... reason . Spare them not merely from the reason that a fine tree is one of the most beautiful works of Nature , although that is a good and valid reason ; but also for the far higher reason of the duty which you owe posterity . Science ...
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... reason- ably free of the hardening bunker oil . A hand comes down to steady the bird ; you accept help without ... reasons . Peter , this gas station attendant , in his oily stained jeans , grey whiskered cheeks , looks up from the maze ...
... reason- ably free of the hardening bunker oil . A hand comes down to steady the bird ; you accept help without ... reasons . Peter , this gas station attendant , in his oily stained jeans , grey whiskered cheeks , looks up from the maze ...
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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