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... supply , which so far has sufficed not only for the people of the valley , but for their brethren on the sea - coast and for millions of Europeans . For many years to come this food - supply can be steadily increased , both by opening ...
... supply , which so far has sufficed not only for the people of the valley , but for their brethren on the sea - coast and for millions of Europeans . For many years to come this food - supply can be steadily increased , both by opening ...
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... supply . Oil wastes strangle the fish fry when they come to the surface . Sewage com- petes with marine life for a limited oxygen supply . Waxy sludge coats the river bottoms and kills plants there . Our streams , ac- cording to Sears ...
... supply . Oil wastes strangle the fish fry when they come to the surface . Sewage com- petes with marine life for a limited oxygen supply . Waxy sludge coats the river bottoms and kills plants there . Our streams , ac- cording to Sears ...
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... supply was not earlier foreseen . Some even impute to the wasters a certain moral turpitude . We forget that for ... supply runs short . When the end of the supply is in sight we " discover " that the thing is valuable . Can not we for ...
... supply was not earlier foreseen . Some even impute to the wasters a certain moral turpitude . We forget that for ... supply runs short . When the end of the supply is in sight we " discover " that the thing is valuable . Can not we for ...
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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