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Page 128
... things , with the aggregate of all their properties , or it denotes things as they would be , apart from human intervention . In the first of these senses , the doctrine that man ought to follow nature is unmeaning , since man has no ...
... things , with the aggregate of all their properties , or it denotes things as they would be , apart from human intervention . In the first of these senses , the doctrine that man ought to follow nature is unmeaning , since man has no ...
Page 192
... thing is not worth the effort and that in the end it can only produce a state of things which no individual will be able to bear . My im- partiality is all the easier to me since I know very little about these things and am sure only of one ...
... thing is not worth the effort and that in the end it can only produce a state of things which no individual will be able to bear . My im- partiality is all the easier to me since I know very little about these things and am sure only of one ...
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... things , animals -emergent parts of the natural order . If our politicians were realists , they would think rather ... things . The truth , as we are now beginning to realize , is that even things ought not to be treated as mere things ...
... things , animals -emergent parts of the natural order . If our politicians were realists , they would think rather ... things . The truth , as we are now beginning to realize , is that even things ought not to be treated as mere things ...
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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