 Phelleus were full of rich earth, and there was abundance of wood in the mountains. Of this last the traces still remain, for although some of the mountains now only afford sustenance to bees, not so very long ago there were still to be seen roofs of...  Sustainable Land Management Sourcebook - Page 6by World Bank - 2008 - 212 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Plato - 1875 - 730 pages
...bearing fruit and abundance of food for cattle. Moreover, the land enjoyed rain from heaven year by year, not as now losing the water which flows off the bare earth into the sea, but, having an abundance in all places, and receiving and treasuring up in the close clay soil the streams which descended... | |
 | Napier Shaw - 1926 - 394 pages
...bearing fruit and abundance of food for cattle. Moreover, the land enjoyed rain from heaven year by year, not as now losing the water which flows off the bare earth into the sea, but, having an 1 EG Mariolopoulos, ' Sur la formation des depressions locales mediterraneennes et la theorie norvegienne... | |
 | Richard T. T. Forman - 1995 - 656 pages
...and softer parts of the soil having fallen away, and the mere skeleton of the land being left. . . . now losing the water which flows off the bare earth into the sea . . . there may be observed sacred memorials in places where fountains once existed'. A preoccupation... | |
 | James Conaway - 2003 - 420 pages
...hundred and fifty years before the birth of Christ, "and the mere skeleton of the land being left . . . Moreover, the land reaped the benefit of the annual...water which flows off the bare earth into the sea." A ban on hydraulic mining had been the first law seeking to control erosion in California. Today mudslides... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - 2002 - 1160 pages
...seen roofs of timber cut from trees growing there . . . and there were many other high trees. . . . The cautionary history of the Mediterranean forests is well known. Much of this destruction has taken... | |
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