"Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable……" — George Perkins Marsh
"Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical truth."
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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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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…
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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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