Top 9 George Perkins Marsh Quotes

#1. Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.

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#2. Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art.

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#3. The equation of animal and vegetable life is too complicated a problem for human intelligence to solve, and we can never know how wide a circle of disturbance we produce in the harmonies of nature when we throw the smallest pebble into the ocean of organic life.

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#4. The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.

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#5. The great question, whether man is of nature or above her.

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#6. 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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#7. All Nature is linked together by invisible bonds and every organic creature, however low, however feeble, however dependent, is necessary to the well-being of some other among the myriad forms of life.

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#8. Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.

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#9. [ ... ] one must have known the Levant to be able to conceive how readily persons intelligent and otherwise respectable will prefer a lie to the truth, when the slightest advantage is to be gained by the use of a falsehood.

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