“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.” WellsTogetherFormScienceCreaturesLowsInvisibleWell BeingDependentLinked Book:Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action Source: Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action
“Apart from the hostile influence of man, the organic and the inorganic world are ... bound together by such mutual relations and adaptations s secure, if not the absolute permanence and equilibrium of both ... at least a very slow and gradual succession of changes in those conditions. But man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.” IfsMenWorldTogetherScienceNatureFeetInfluenceConditionsRelationAbsolutesHarmonyPlantBoundsSecureAgentsMutualHostileAdaptationDisturbingSuccessionEquilibriumPermanenceDiscord Author:George Perkins Marsh