George Perkins Marsh Quotes
Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.
Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.
The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.
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.