The motive powers and purificators of the atmosphere through the respiration of their foliage, avaricious collectors to the advantage of future ages of the solar heat, it is they which pacify the storm and avert its most disastrous consequences. In the... Nature: Or, The Poetry of Earth and Sea - Seite xxvon Athanaïs Mialaret Michelet ("Mme. Jules Michelet, "), Madame Jules Michelet - 1872 - 431 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Athénaïs Marguerite M. Michelet - 1872 - 478 Seiten
...before the advent of man, drained the soil, by their roots, forcing the stagnant waters to descend, ami construct at a lower depth their useful reservoirs....consolidate the crumbling soil, check and break in tlie torrent, control the melting of the snows, and preserve to the meadows the fertile humidily which... | |
| John Bradley Peaslee - 1884 - 76 Seiten
...which pacify the storm and avert its most disastrous consequences. In the low-lying plains, which have no outlet for their waters, the trees, long before...they consolidate the crumbling soil, check and break the torrent, control the melting of the snows, and preserve to the meadows the fertile humidity which... | |
| Vermont. State Board of Agriculture - 1884 - 454 Seiten
...most disastrous consequences. They render marshes healthful, wet soils are made comparatively dry, on the abrupt declivities, they consolidate the crumbling soil, check and break the torrent, control the melting of the snows, and preserve to the meadows the fertile humidity which... | |
| United States. Bureau of Education, United States. Office of Education - 1885 - 840 Seiten
...which pacify the storm and avert its most disastrous consequences. In the low-lying plains, which have no outlet for their waters, the trees, long before...declivities, they consolidate the crumbling soil, cheek and break tlie torrent, control the melting of the snows, and preserve to tho meadows the fertile... | |
| Ohio. State Forestry Bureau - 1888 - 162 Seiten
...which pacify the storm and avert its most disastrous consequences. In the low-lying plains, which have no outlet for their waters, the trees, long before...at a lower depth their useful reservoirs. And now, ou the abrupt declivities, they consolidate the crumbling soil, check and break the torrent, control... | |
| Ohio. State Forestry Bureau - 1888 - 164 Seiten
...which pacify the storm and avert its most disastrous consequences. In the low-lying plains, which have no outlet for their waters, the trees, long before...they consolidate the crumbling soil, check and break the torrent, control the melting of the snows, and preserve to the meadows the fertile humidity which... | |
| Charles Rufus Skinner - 1890 - 520 Seiten
...which pacify the storm and avert its most disastrous consequences. In the low-lying plains, which have no outlet for their waters, the trees, long before...they consolidate the crumbling soil, check and break the torrent, control the melting of the snows, and preserve to the meadows the fertile humidity which... | |
| Robert Haven Schauffler - 1909 - 400 Seiten
...which pacify the storm and avert its most disastrous consequences. In the low-lying plains, which have no outlet for their waters, the trees, long before...they consolidate the crumbling soil, check and break the torrent, control the melting of the snows, and preserve to the meadows the fertile humidity which... | |
| Robert Haven Schauffler - 1909 - 400 Seiten
...which pacify the storm and avert its most disastrous consequences. In the low-lying plains, which have no outlet for their waters, the trees, long before...they consolidate the crumbling soil, check and break the torrent, control the melting of the snows, and preserve to the meadows the fertile humidity which... | |
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