 ... phenomena of decomposition and recomposition. But she has left it within the power of man irreparably to derange the combinations of inorganic matter and of organic life, which through the night of aeons she had been proportioning and balancing, to...  Our Living Land - Página 13de United States. Department of the Interior - 1971 - 96 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | George Perkins Marsh - 1864 - 592 páginas
...had been proportioning and balancing, to prepare the earth for his habitation, when, in the fulness of time, his Creator should call him forth to enter into its possession. Apart from the hostile influence of man, the organic and the inorganic world are, as I have remarked,... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - 1874 - 702 páginas
...had been proportioning and balancing, to prepare the earth for his habitation, when in the fulness of time his Creator should call him forth to enter into its possession. Apart from the hostile influence of man, the organic and the inorganic world are, as I have remarked,... | |
 | Josiah Dwight Whitney - 1882 - 450 páginas
...has been proportioning and balancing, to prepare the earth for his habitation, when in the fulness of time his Creator should call him forth to enter into its possession But man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are... | |
 | Indiana Horticultural Society, Indiana Horticultural Society. Meeting - 1881 - 180 páginas
...of inorganic matter and of organic life, which, through the night of seons, she had been preparing and balancing to prepare the earth for his habitation,...should call him forth to enter into its possession." If this be so, it becomes the farmer to disturb this balance between the organic and inorganic realms... | |
 | Thom Kuehls - 1996 - 226 páginas
...aeons," Marsh wrote, "[nature] had been proportion [ed] and balanc[ed], to prepare the earth for [man's] habitation, when, in the fullness of time, his Creator should call him forth to enter into its possession."10 Neither Marsh's description of the permanence of nature's form nor his claim about the... | |
 | Robert V. Percival, Dorothy C. Alevizatos - 1997 - 468 páginas
...the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste. Nature has provided against the absolute destruction...should call him forth to enter into its possession. Apart from the hostile influence of man, the organic and the inorganic world are, as I have remarked,... | |
 | Owen Goldin, Patricia Kilroe - 1997 - 276 páginas
...the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste. Nature has provided against the absolute destruction...should call him forth to enter into its possession. Apart from the hostile influence of man, the organic and the inorganic world are, as I have remarked,... | |
 | John Warfield Simpson - 1999 - 422 páginas
...been proportioning and balancing, to prepare the earth for his habitation, when, in the fulness [sic] of time, his Creator should call him forth to enter into its possession."3 Man and Nature argued that human societies disturb the landscape and disrupt its natural... | |
 | James Sanderson - 2020 - 270 páginas
...the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste. Nature has provided against the absolute destruction...should call him forth to enter into its possession. Few listened and still fewer understood. By the turn of the 20th century many wildlife resources had... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - 2001 - 252 páginas
...had been proportioning and balancing, to prepare the earth for his habitation, when, in the fulness of time, his Creator should call him forth to enter into its possession. Apart from the hostile influence of man, the organic and the inorganic world are, as I have remarked,... | |
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