What Did Marsh Mean When He Wrote ââåsight Is a Faculty Seeing an Art ã¢ââ 261?
George Perkins Marsh, Prophet of Conservation
Academy of Washington Press, 2000 - 605 pages
George Perkins Marsh (1801-1882) was the first to reveal the menace of ecology misuse, to explicate its causes, and to prescribe reforms. David Lowenthal here offers fresh insights, from new sources, into Marsh's career and shows his relevance today, in a book which has its roots in only wholly supersedes Lowenthal'due south earlier biography George Perkins Marsh: Versatile Vermonter (1958). Marsh's devotion to the repair of nature, to the concerns of working people, to women's rights, and to historical stewardship resonate more than than e'er. His Vermont birthplace is now a national park chronicling American conservation, and the crusade he launched is now global. Marsh'due south seminal book Homo and Nature is famed for its ecological acumen. The clue to its inception lies in Marsh's many-sided date in the life of his fourth dimension. The broadest scholar of his 24-hour interval, he was an acclaimed linguist, lawyer, congressman, and renowned diplomat who served 25 years every bit U.Southward. envoy to Turkey and to Italia. He helped found and guide the Smithsonian Institution, shaped the Washington Monument, penned strong tracts on fisheries and on irrigation, spearheaded public scientific discipline, art, and architecture. He wrote on camels and corporate corruption, Icelandic grammer and Tall glaciers. His pungent and provocative messages illuminate life on both sides of the Atlantic. Like Darwin's Origin of Species, Marsh's Man and Nature marked the inception of a truly modern mode of looking at the earth, of taking care lest we irreversibly degrade the fabric of humanized nature we are leap to manage. Marsh's ominous warnings inspired reforestation, watershed management, soil conservation, and nature protection in his day and ours. George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation was awarded the Association for American Geographers' 2000 J. B. Jackson Prize. The book was also on the shortlist for the first British University Book Prize, awarded in December 2001. "This erudite and richly detailed biography does full justice to a brilliant American thinker, the founder of the conservation movement. It brings Marsh's world wonderfully alive, from Vermont to the Italian Alps, and convincingly shows how provocative he still is today." - Donald Worster, University of Kansas David Lowenthal is professor emeritus of geography at Academy College London. His books include The Past Is a Foreign Country, West Indian Societies, and The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History.
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Page 418 - It is desirable that some big and easily accessible region of American soil should remain, as far as possible, in its primitive condition, at one time a museum for the instruction of the pupil, a garden for the recreation of the lover of nature, and an asylum...
Page 501 - They made efforts to destroy them. The result was, the blackbirds were macerated; but a kind of worm, which devoured their grass, and which the blackbirds used to feed on, increased prodigiously; then, t ?r • finding their loss in grass much greater than their saving in corn, they wished once more for their blackbirds.
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Page 286 - With the extirpation of the forest, all is inverse. At one season, the earth parts with its warmth by radiations to an open sky — receives, at another, an immoderate heat from the unobstructed rays of the sun. Hence the climate becomes excessive, and the soil is alternately parched past the fervors of summertime, and seared by the rigors of winter. Dour winds sweep unresisted over its surface, migrate abroad the snow that sheltered information technology from the frost, and dry upward its scanty wet.
Page 286 - The earth, stripped of its vegetable glebe, grows less and less productive, and, consequently, less able to protect itself by weaving a new network of roots to bind its particles together, a new carpeting of turf to shield it from wind and sun and scouring pelting.
Page 427 - Human has too long forgotten that the globe was given to him for usufruct lone, non for consumption, all the same less for profligate waste.
Page 19 - He pointed out the direction of the different ranges of hills ; told me how the water gathered on them and ran down their sides. * * * He stopped his horse on the superlative of a steep hill, bade me detect how the water there flowed in unlike directions, and told me that such a point was called a watershed. I never forgot that discussion, nor any office of my begetter'due south talk that day.
Folio 208 - ... to humiliate a supplication, for, to nowadays a memorial ; to way the strength which awes, and the finesse which deceives, alike, onesta , honesty or respectability ; to speak of taking human life by poison, not every bit a criminal offence, merely just as a way of facilitating death, ajutare la morte; to employ pellegrino...
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