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... seen tumbling from the rocky walls at different points , and the river appears from the lofty summits a mere ribbon of foam in the immeasurable distance below . This huge abyss , through walls of flinty lava , has not been worn away by ...
... seen tumbling from the rocky walls at different points , and the river appears from the lofty summits a mere ribbon of foam in the immeasurable distance below . This huge abyss , through walls of flinty lava , has not been worn away by ...
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... seen drudgery in the country comparable for a moment to the dreary and lonely drudgery of city tenements , city mills , factories and sweat shops . And in recent years both the drudgery and loneliness of country life have been ...
... seen drudgery in the country comparable for a moment to the dreary and lonely drudgery of city tenements , city mills , factories and sweat shops . And in recent years both the drudgery and loneliness of country life have been ...
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... seen it with mine own eyes . I saw great store of whales , and grampuses , and such abundance of mackerels that it would astonish one to behold ; likewise codfish , abundance on the coast , and in their season are plentifully taken ...
... seen it with mine own eyes . I saw great store of whales , and grampuses , and such abundance of mackerels that it would astonish one to behold ; likewise codfish , abundance on the coast , and in their season are plentifully taken ...
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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