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Strategies & Market Trends : Fascist Oligarchs Attack Cute Cuddly Canadians

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To: marcos who wrote (276)11/16/2001 1:29:31 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (1) of 1293
 
Hi marcos; Thanks for the informative reply. Most of the differences in agriculture / ranching / silviculture between the New World and Old depend on population densities. I remember how shocked some Europeans were to discover that in the U.S. we were so unkind to our kine as to let them run around loose at night. They thought that rather cruel, but the concept of bringing in the cattle from a 100 square mile ranch every night is silly in west Texas. As for the tree cutting before 1850, it was all over Europe. Here's some favorite lines:

Where Are They Now
SteelEye Span, Sails of Silver, 1980
Man said Nature was his mother
Made a promise at his birth
But she's running like a hunted fox for cover
All across the Earth

The forest turned into the tall ships,
And though they fought for England well
The emptiness is ringing down the ages
Like a hollow bell

Chorus:

Where are they now?
Old mysteries
The high ideas of thousand years
All lost on the breeze
Where are they now?
...

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-- Carl
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