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... turn to mass destruction , for in a simplified system the vulnerability of the enterprise is high . Today ... turning to the new high - yield strains , expanding their fields , and achieving clean cultivation . This eliminates the ...
... turn to mass destruction , for in a simplified system the vulnerability of the enterprise is high . Today ... turning to the new high - yield strains , expanding their fields , and achieving clean cultivation . This eliminates the ...
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... turn this to their advantage , owing to the little account made of Natural History , that science being here ( as in other parts of the world ) looked upon as a mere trifle , and the pastime of fools . I am certain , and my certainty is ...
... turn this to their advantage , owing to the little account made of Natural History , that science being here ( as in other parts of the world ) looked upon as a mere trifle , and the pastime of fools . I am certain , and my certainty is ...
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... turn . It hurt to see him perverted into a sterile zealot . I resolved to do what I could for him when I blew off the lid . The fault did not lie with him . It was the people who had soured him on the world who should pay . Surely there ...
... turn . It hurt to see him perverted into a sterile zealot . I resolved to do what I could for him when I blew off the lid . The fault did not lie with him . It was the people who had soured him on the world who should pay . Surely there ...
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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