"Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art." — George Perkins Marsh
"Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art."
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George Perkins Marsh
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11 Quotes by George Perkins Marsh
George Perkins Marsh has 11 quotes on this site.
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The equation of animal and vegetable life is too complicated a problem for human intelligence to solve, and we can…
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Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander…
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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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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…
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Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less…
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Apart from the hostile influence of man, the organic and the inorganic world are ... bound together by such mutual…
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All Nature is linked together by invisible bonds and every organic creature, however low, however feeble, however dependent, is necessary…
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We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of…
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More Art Quotes
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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