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...tes, its children. For days the water streamed off the land, sweeping away soil and trees and houses in the way, and piling huge dykes and scooping ou... ...n could desire—sweet water, pasture, an even climate, slopes of rich brown soil with tangles of a shrub that bore an excellent fruit, and on one side ...

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...This order does not change. An example is a grain of wheat that decays in the soil and, as a result, produces a new shoot. The wheat grain loses its... ...tly, the quantity and quality of the grain change because additional factors (soil, water, sun) appear to complement the properties of the primary m... ... our ancestors, these properties resemble a grain that loses its form in the soil. Yet, some of our acquired properties manifest within us in an op... ...s through the influence of our environ- ment, for a grain develops only in its soil, in the environment that suits it. Hence, the only choice we have...

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...ther renew the fight, Or tear the lions out of England’s coat; Renounce your soil, give sheep in lions’ stead: Sheep run not half so treacherous from ...

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... whole opera,” said he, “is founded on a bass, as on a 31 Balzac fruitful soil. Mahomet was to have a majestic bass voice, and his wife necessarily h...

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...yield thee of her pleasant fruits for thy daily need, but by thy hands her soil is stained with holy blood. Therefore the green Codex Junius 11 25 ea...

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...Quietly Respect the Creatures In the Fire How Far Mind’s Gift Feel the Black Soil Sing Not Simpler Out of the Other Language Loosing Go Han Shan’s Mountain Plum Buds Diving Seeing World This Place Immortal, Ephemeral Going Past One Universe, Shining Empty Meaning Moon-Slope Cool Breast I...

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...? One year? Ultimately; every fallen leaf and branch becomes part of the soil, which then in turn nourishes the roots and seeds of the forest s... ...ated then re-combine, so they can be transformed back into living plants and soil to nourish roots and living creatures. In the context of one mill... ...raw earth. Stone is raw. Earth is created by the breaking of stones into red soil. Which part of the earth did our ancestors copy? The crust, the... ...ientific way of determining whether there were hearths, unless you dig up the soil and try to find carbon deposits that were washed into the soil and... ...is what ancient Egyptians did for 5,000 years. Ignited by iron pyrites in the soil… creating sparks when the earth was pushed up and gases rushing u... ...its un-processable chemicals that stay there and kill all living things in the soil. As long as the carrion eaters ate the dead kills of the predato... ...e the dead kills of the predators fast enough so they could not leach into the soil, the soil stayed healthy… too healthy. It became the healthiest... ...he worst rainstorms, and the worst floods easily. No other plant-kingdom, soil-oil dynamic balance is this rich in over-lapping energy-forms that... ... stay healthy and do not weaken. This is because of the depth of the African soil. It rests on a previously covered and buried eco-system. This m...

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...with its attendant problems of insufficient clean air and water, of loss of soil and oxygen producing trees, the population induced weather changes, ... ...rn society does not need the drones required in the Middle Ages to till the soil and construct the cathedrals. It needs only highly skilled architec... ...nder Gulliver on each planet. There were the reports on the analyses of the soil, temperature and atmosphere. But there was nothing about the comman...

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...Is it because the Europeans have experienced more recent wars on their own soil—WW 1, WW 2, and the Soviet takeovers, so that they don‘t have the fee... ... own economy and the need for its own ethnic citizens to till the 253 soil and man the machines. They disregard the fact that there are waiting w... ...id not grant them to American Indians, even though they were born on U.S. soil and even if they left the tribe and swore allegiance to the U.S. gove... ...hip until 1924. On the other hand a child born to legal immigrants on U.S. soil is a citizen.(74) But, based on these cases, a child born to an illeg... ...ldren of those illegal immigrants. Not all children born on United States soil are citizens. Children or foreign diplomats are excluded. They, of co... ...id. Their Constitution gave Dominican citizenship to anyone born on their soil, except for diplomats and those in transit through the country, The D... ...to be showing their complete allegiance to a country by just being on its soil. ―It‘s strange that the child of an American citizen born abroa... ... idea goes way back in British law. In earlier days anyone born on British soil was a subject of the king. The previous British common law stemmed fr... ...K. And citizenship is no longer acquired because you were born on British soil. You must be born of a British citizen on British soil. So the birth o...

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...ets over a third of the total food aid. We have been lucky because of our soil and monsoons, we have been able to get by with very little food aid, ...

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...us back to the land of Israel, he also brought us back to the ‘spiritual soil.’ Meaning, he gave us an opportunity for spiritual operations and sub... ... to the spiritual attributes of this land. While we are physically on the soil of the Land of Israel, we must also obtain the inner degree, the spir...

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...alls in black and worried faces raised to a heaven which, in its smoky and soiled aspect, seemed to reflect the sordidness of the earth below. One thi... ...ck and the thick hair on his chest. He planted the oar upright in the soft soil, and rolling up slowly his right sleeve, extended the bare arm before ...

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...n the rest of the soldiers to the darkness. With his last bit of strength he turned, preparing to dive back into the Rift. Before his feet left the soil of the forsaken world, a single strand of black shot toward him, curling around his ankle as he leapt. And then . . . there was fire. Burning him from the inside out. And a voice . . . 'My seed shall grow upon this l...

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...ist of Acronyms xii Forward by Ismail Serageldin xiii To The Reader xv Chapter 1. NATURAL RESOURCES 1 Concern 1 The Underlying Resources 3 Land and Soil 3 Water 7 Atmosphere 12 Biodiversity 15 Forests 17 Management of Natural Resources 19 Chapter 2. FOOD AND AGRICULTURE 23 The Development of Modern Agriculture 23 Population and Food 27 Future Food Demand 30 The Agricul...

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...rom planet Squamata Palus had joined the colourful lot travelling among the cargo. Squamata Palus was a planet soaked in red. The rocks were red, the soil was red; and the sun shining at it was red, too. Therefore, the natural colour of the Varanoides was red. Other species sometimes called the Varanoides Red Scales; a pejorative term that was better not used toward them. ...

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...of farm is found on the Wai‘anae Coast of O‘ahu. On 16 acres of fertile soil beneath the Wai‘anae mountains, MA‘O Organic Farms raises top-qualit...

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...9) Dutch Physician and Plant Physiologist 299 JULIUS VON SACHS (1832 - 1897) German Botanist 301 THE PRINCIPLE OF VEGETATION, PLANT NUTRITION AND SOIL CHEMISTRY 303 JEAN SENEBIER (1742 - 1809) Swiss Scholar and Plant Physiologist 304 THEODORE De SAUSSURE (1767 - 1845) Swiss Chemist and Plant Physiologist 306 JEAN BAPTISTE BOUSSINGAULT (1801 - 1887) French Chemist 3...

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...is followed by four sections on the physical, biotic, cultural, and social aspects of the Hawai'i environment. Geology, climate, the ocean, water, soils, and astronomy are among the topics discussed in "The Physical Environment." Next the special character of terrestrial and marine ecosystems is described in "The Biotic Environment." "The Cultural Environment" considers...

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...- Volcanic Hazards on the Island of Hawai'i -- 72 -- Hurricanes -- 74 -- Tsunamis -- 76 -- Coastal Hazards -- 79 -- The Ocean -- 82 -- Water -- 87 -- Soils -- 92 -- Astronomy -- 97 -- Biogeography -- 103 -- Evolution -- 107 -- Marine Ecosystems -- 111 -- Terrestrial Ecosystems -- 121 -- Birds -- 130 -- Native Plants -- 135 -- Insects and Their Kin -- 140 -- Hawaiian Tree ...

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... a romancer might have strayed into a region of old poetry, where the rich soil, so long uncultivated and untrodden, had lapsed into nearly its primev... ...d nurseries of early art, where the flower of beauty sprang out of a rocky soil, and in a high, keen atmosphere, when the richest and most sheltered g... ...fe in the chinks of the stones; for it had no earth, and nothing more like soil than the crumbling mortar, which had been crammed into the crevices in... ... a virgin’s breast, even after the spring is well advanced. In such alpine soils, the summer will not be anticipated; we seek vainly for passionate fl... ...depth, like roots drawn out of the substance of the soul, with some of the soil clinging to them. There is always a something inscrutable, instead of ... ...l not be appeased by the myri- ads of dead hopes that lie crushed into the soil of Rome. How wonderful that this our narrow foothold of the Present sh... ... had time begun to crumble the supplemental struc- ture, and cover it with soil, by means of wayside dust) grew trees, bushes, and thick festoons of i... ...to be wholly or partly under ground. A spade can scarcely be put into that soil, so rich in lost and forgot- ten things, without hitting upon some dis... ...relieve the anxious tedium of his situ- ation, he cleared away some of the soil, which seemed to have fallen very recently, and discovered a headless ...

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... cocker’d silken wanton, brave our fields, And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil, Mocking the air with colors idly spread, And find no check? Let us,...

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... to him, then?’ ‘Out of my window, sir.’ ‘What place here is the scoundrel soiling now?’ ‘He is on the doorstep outside the house.’ ‘Outside, is he? a... ..., piled upon empty cellarage. It will inevitably, like a tree striking bad soil, betray itself at the top with time. And the anguish I speak of will b... ...o lower. Nations appear to me to have no 277 George Meredith worse than a soiled mirror of themselves in mobs. They are still uncivilized: they still... ... Am I the man that dragged your grandmother’s name through the streets and soiled yours?’ I remarked that I was sensible of the debt of gratitude I ow... ..., encountered incredulity. He had his proofs. He who had never been on the soil of France since early boyhood, spoke French with a pure accent: he had...

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... the hills covered with bushes of a metallic green with coppery patches of soil in between; the valleys filled with dry salt mud and a little stagnant...

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...s there not something ludicrous in the idea of submitting a square yard of soil and an estate of thou- sands of acres to the same legal formalities? T... ...p costs five sous, even supposing that the raw ma- terial is grown on good soil with special culture; three 76 Eve and David francs’ worth of sized p... ...great bunch of the yellow stone-crop which grows everywhere upon the stony soil of the vineyards, he came out upon a traveler dressed in black from he...

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...ed, and lips covered with foam, was rolling on the ground, and beating the soil with his limbs. Some one cried out that he was poisoned. All then beli... ...emselves with torches as they stumbled on the slope of the deeply laboured soil. But they perceived a little lake divided into several basins by walls... ...alammbo rosy sky grew larger, the lofty houses, bending over the slop- ing soil, reared and massed themselves like a herd of black goats coming down f... ...e not asleep lowered their heads dazzled by the light of day. The trampled soil was hidden beneath splashes of red. The elephants poised their bleedin... ... the pomegranate trees that were watered with silphium. Such wealth of the soil and such inventions of wisdom dazzled them. In the evening they stretc... ... the land. She seemed to fill it with her soul. In such convulsions of the soil, such alter- nations of temperature, and such plays of light would she... ...g, and something red appeared in the distance among the undulations of the soil. It was a large purple litter, adorned with ostrich feathers at the co... ...Spendius, Narr’ Havas, and Matho despatched men to all the tribes on Punic soil. Carthage was sapping the strength of these nations. She wrung exorbit... ...ve deep sighs. He would lie flat on his face, with his nails buried in the soil, and weep; he felt wretched, paltry, forsaken. Never would he possess ...