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... wind bore The loosening drift its breath before ; Low circling round its southern zone , The sun through dazzling snow - mist shone . No church - bell lent its Christian tone To the savage air , no social smoke Curled over woods of snow ...
... wind bore The loosening drift its breath before ; Low circling round its southern zone , The sun through dazzling snow - mist shone . No church - bell lent its Christian tone To the savage air , no social smoke Curled over woods of snow ...
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... wind and water is getting under way on another 100 million acres . More than 300 million acres - one - sixth of the country - is gone , going or beginning to go . This , we note , is on land orginally the most fertile . Kansas farms are ...
... wind and water is getting under way on another 100 million acres . More than 300 million acres - one - sixth of the country - is gone , going or beginning to go . This , we note , is on land orginally the most fertile . Kansas farms are ...
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... wind followed the rain clouds , driving them on north- ward , a wind that softly clashed the drying corn . A day went by and the wind increased , steady , unbroken by gusts . The dust from the roads fluffed up and spread out and fell on ...
... wind followed the rain clouds , driving them on north- ward , a wind that softly clashed the drying corn . A day went by and the wind increased , steady , unbroken by gusts . The dust from the roads fluffed up and spread out and fell on ...
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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