The Inviolable Hills: The Ecology, Conservation and Regeneration of the British UplandsStuart & Watkins in conjunction with The Soil Association, 1968 - 244 pages |
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... realised , like other types of adversity , had a Toynbeean function as challenger : air Killing infectious damps , and the spent Storing afresh with elemental life , it binds Our strengthened bodies in its cold embrace Constringent ...
... realised , like other types of adversity , had a Toynbeean function as challenger : air Killing infectious damps , and the spent Storing afresh with elemental life , it binds Our strengthened bodies in its cold embrace Constringent ...
Page 59
... realised the severe limitations of man's knowledge of ecology and biology - the basic facts of life . He therefore realised the dangers inherent in the attitude that regards man as the conqueror of Nature . " In human history , we have ...
... realised the severe limitations of man's knowledge of ecology and biology - the basic facts of life . He therefore realised the dangers inherent in the attitude that regards man as the conqueror of Nature . " In human history , we have ...
Page 76
... realised , was to recognise that every living organism , however humble , had elements of uniqueness , and among those elements might be found some mutation , some gene , which could be of profound importance to mankind . Similarly he ...
... realised , was to recognise that every living organism , however humble , had elements of uniqueness , and among those elements might be found some mutation , some gene , which could be of profound importance to mankind . Similarly he ...
Contents
Our Greatest UnderDeveloped Resource I | 1 |
PART | 13 |
A COUNTRY THAT WAS OURS | 30 |
Copyright | |
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acid acres agricultural Aldo Leopold animals balance beauty biological birds bogs Britain Britain's upland British uplands Brynach building Capability Brown causes Celtic century compost conifers conservation countryside crops D. H. Lawrence deer disease earth ecological effect elements erosion example extracts factors factory farming farm farmers fertilisers fertility flooding flowers forest forestry fruit garden grass grazing green manuring ground-water system growing H. J. Massingham herd Highlands hillside human humus industrial insects Keyline Lady Eve Balfour land landscape leached livestock living Living Soil manure Massingham Max Nicholson minerals moor moorland natural Nature's nutritional organic pastures peat pests pioneer plant ploughing problems realised reclamation regeneration reservoirs river rock Rolf Gardiner roots scheme Scottish sheep Sir Albert Howard slopes soil species Sylvia Crowe techniques tion trees upland areas urban valley vegetation Welsh whole wholefoods wild wild-life wind