 | R. Bruce Hull - Nature - 2006 - 273 pages
...stewardship of environmental resources: Vast forests have disappeared from mountain spurs and ridges; the vegetable earth accumulated beneath the trees...cisterns and reservoirs that supplied the ancient canals are broken, or the springs that fed them dried up; rivers famous in history and song have shrunk to... | |
 | J. B. Ruhl, Steven E. Kraft, Christopher L. Lant - Law - 2013 - 360 pages
...in both productiveness and population. Vast forests have disappeared from mountain spurs and ridges, the vegetable earth accumulated beneath the trees...cisterns and reservoirs that supplied the ancient canals are broken, or the springs that fed them dried up; rivers famous in history and song have shrunk to... | |
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Vast forests have disappeared from mountain spurs and ridges ; the vegetable earth accumulated beneath the trees by the decay of leaves and fallen trunks; the soil of the alpine pastures, which skirted and indented the woods, and the mould of the upland... 
