Our Wasteful Nation: The Story of American Prodigality and the Abus E of Our National ResourcesM. Kennerley, 1908 - 134 עמודים |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
acres American amount animals annually average Baker Lake became Bering Sea Binger Hermann birds buffalo buffalo skinner bushels cent CHIG CHIG UNIV coast commerce Congress crops cubic feet decrease destroyed destruction eggs enormous estimated exhausted exterminated extinction fact fire fish fishery flocks FMIC forests fuel herd human lives hundreds hunter IGAN increased industry islands killed lakes land larvæ less little terns lobsters loss MIC SITY Michigan miles millions moose Mountains nation natural gas nesting once Pacific passenger pigeon petroleum pigeons pine plains present production protection quantities railroads railways rivers salmon seals season settlers shad skins slaughter soil species square miles streams supply taxidermists thousands timber tion tons trees typhoid fever Uncle Sam United UNIV RSITY UNIVE MIC UNIV UNIVE UNIVE valuable waste waterways West West Virginia wild turkey wood York
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 82 - Towards the approach of day, the noise in some measure subsided, long before objects were distinguishable, the Pigeons began to move off in a direction quite different from that in which they had arrived the evening before, and at sunrise all that were able to fly had disappeared. The howlings of the wolves now reached our ears, and the foxes, lynxes, cougars, bears, raccoons, opossums and pole-cats were seen sneaking off, whilst eagles and hawks of different species, accompanied by a crowd of vultures,...
עמוד 81 - Many trees two feet in diameter, I observed, were broken off at no great distance from the ground ; and the branches of many of the largest and tallest had given way, as if the forest had been swept by a tornado. Everything proved to me that the number of birds resorting to this part of the forest must be immense beyond conception.
עמוד 81 - The noise which they made, though yet distant, reminded me of a hard gale at sea passing through the rigging of a close-reefed vessel. As the birds arrived and passed over me, I felt a current of air that surprised me.
עמוד 7 - We found the people most gentle, loving, and faithful, void of all guile and treason, and such as live after the manner of the golden age.
עמוד 81 - Everything proved to me that the number of birds resorting to this part of the forest must be immense beyond conception. As the period of their arrival approached, their foes anxiously prepared to receive them. Some were furnished with iron pots containing sulphur, others with torches of pine-knots, many with poles, and the rest with guns.
עמוד 35 - The richest region of the West is no more exempt than New England or the South. The soil of the West is being reduced in agricultural potency by exactly the same processes which have driven the farmer of the East, with all his advantage of nearness to markets, from the field. Within the last forty years a great part of the richest land in the country has been brought under cultivation. We should, therefore, in the same time, have raised proportionately the yield of our principal crops per acre, because...
עמוד 109 - That in cases in which a tract covered by an unperfected bona fide claim or by a patent is included within the limits of a public forest reservation, the settler or owner thereof may, if he desires to do so, relinquish the tract to the Government, and may select in lieu thereof a tract of vacant land open to settlement not exceeding in area the tract covered by his claim or patent...
עמוד 133 - ... profit. The time has come for a change. As a people, we have the right and the duty, second to none other but the right and duty of obeying the moral law, of requiring and doing justice, to protect ourselves and our children against the wasteful development of our natural resources, whether that waste is caused by the actual destruction of such resources or by making them impossible of development hereafter.
עמוד 83 - I have seen them move in one unbroken column for hours across the sky, like some great river, ever varying in hue; and as the mighty stream, sweeping on at sixty miles an hour, reached some deep valley, it would pour its living mass headlong down hundreds of feet, sounding as though a whirlwind was abroad in the land. I have stood by the grandest waterfall of America and regarded the descending torrents in wonder and astonishment, yet never have my astonishment, wonder and admiration been so stirred...
עמוד 50 - ... and supply of carbon known to our forefathers, we are with ruthless hands and regardless of the future applying both torch and bomb to the vastly greater resources of this precious carbon which provident Nature had stored for our use in the buried forests of the distant past. The wildest anarchist determined to destroy and overturn the foundations of government could not act in a more irrational and thoughtless manner than have our People in permitting such fearful destruction of the very sources...