"When not protected by law, by popular favor……" — George Perkins Marsh
"When not protected by law, by popular favor or superstition, or by other special circumstances, [birds] yield very readily to the influences of civilization, and, though the first operations of the settler are favorable to the increase of many species, the great extension of rural and of mechanical industry is, in a variety of ways, destructive even to tribes not directly warred upon by man."
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George Perkins Marsh
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11 Quotes by George Perkins Marsh
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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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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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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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