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I recalled that Baudelaire poem that evokes our passage through "forets de symboles," where we are dwarfed by a natural world -- in this case, a world of artifacts -- that seems, as the poet suggests, to observe us as we pass.
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Francoise Dinger, Centre national du machinisme agricole du genie rural des eaux et des forets (CEMAGREF), Grenoble Regional Centre Dom.
Chapter 11 1993
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Considerations sur l'ecologie des forets claires du Cambodge oriental.
Chapter 9 1983
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"Ah, que ne suis-je assise a l'ombre des forets!" is but the cry of despair, the appeal, filled with anguish, of a heart that is troubled and which oft has sought peace and alleviation amid the cold indifference of inanimate things.
An Iceland Fisherman Pierre Loti 1886
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Luck had rather a good voice, and treated me to French songs; his favourite started, "J'ai souvent parcouru le monde, les forets et les grandes savannes ----" This was always loudly applauded.
Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885
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She says, “Cela sent l'Americain qui apres avoir abattu les forets a coup de hache, croit qu'on doit de meme conquerir le monde intellectuel”!
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883
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An arpent des eaux et forets, or legal acre of France, of which 1. 95
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She says, "Cela sent l'Americain qui apres avoir abattu les forets a coup de hache, croit qu'on doit de meme conquerir le monde intellectuel"!
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Thomas Carlyle 1838
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An arpent des eaux et forets, or legal acre of France, of which 1. 95
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Societe de protection contre les incendies de forets, SOPFEU, teams arrive at the La Tuque airfield, in the town of La Tuque, 300 km north of Trois Rivieres in Northern Quebec, on
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