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Page 125
... vast railroads , canals , and telegraph lines are com- pleted , and rivers improved , with our thousands of steam horses , steam and canal boats , moving every second in the day , who can calculate the immense extension which our ...
... vast railroads , canals , and telegraph lines are com- pleted , and rivers improved , with our thousands of steam horses , steam and canal boats , moving every second in the day , who can calculate the immense extension which our ...
Page 126
... vast wealth produced by our unlimited internal resources will open all the arteries of trade in our common country , moving with beautiful harmony with all the departments of government . Our nation is vast - her bounds are oceans . She ...
... vast wealth produced by our unlimited internal resources will open all the arteries of trade in our common country , moving with beautiful harmony with all the departments of government . Our nation is vast - her bounds are oceans . She ...
Page 389
... vast energy released us from the tedious labor that would otherwise be needed to survive and gave us the time and the means to pursue a creative life with a freedom and variety that were inconceivable a century ago . Such technology and ...
... vast energy released us from the tedious labor that would otherwise be needed to survive and gave us the time and the means to pursue a creative life with a freedom and variety that were inconceivable a century ago . Such technology and ...
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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