“We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of material life to its normal proportions, and devise means for maintaining the permanence of its relations to the fields, the meadows and the pastures, to the rain and the dews of heaven, to the springs and rivulets with which it waters down the earth.” MeanEnoughEarthPastScienceHeavenWaterToo MuchFieldsMaterialsElementsNormalSpringRainRelationForestsProportionMaintainingDewMeadowsPermanencePastures Book:So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh Source: So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh
“Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.” MenLongStillsEarthScienceGivenWasteForgottenConsumptionConsumerismOverconsumption Book:Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action Source: Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action
