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George Perkins Marsh has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The equation of animal and vegetable life is too complicated a problem for human intelligence to solve, and we can never know…
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Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even…
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Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.
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The great question, whether man is of nature or above her.
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Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art.
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The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.
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When not protected by law, by popular favor or superstition, or by other special circumstances, [birds] yield very readily to the influences…
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Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate…
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Apart from the hostile influence of man, the organic and the inorganic world are ... bound together by such mutual relations and…
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All Nature is linked together by invisible bonds and every organic creature, however low, however feeble, however dependent, is necessary to the…
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We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of material life…
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Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by…
— Murray Gell-Mann
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The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special…
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When not protected by law, by popular favor or superstition, or by other special circumstances, [birds] yield very readily to the influences…
— George Perkins Marsh
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It's my contention that there is no sincere path a human being can take without breaking his or her heart...so it can…
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There is an intellectual function in us which demands unity, connection and intelligibility from any material, whether of perception or thought, that…
— Sigmund Freud
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The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and…
— John Foster Dulles
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For our maternal mothers the last months of pregnancy and the first months following delivery are generally an exhausting and a challenging…
— Danny Santagato
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