Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Marsh , George Perkins (1864), Man and nature; or, Physical geography as modified by human action, Retrieved on 2012-06-12
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    12 JUN 2012

     Early Environmentalism

    he ravages committed by man subvert the relations and destroy the balance which nature had established between her organized and her inorganic creations; and she avenges herself upon the intruder, by letting loose upon her defaced provinces destructive energies hitherto kept in check by organic forces destined to be his best auxiliaries, but which he has unwisely dispersed and driven from the field of action. When the forest is gone, the great reservoir of moisture stored up in its vegetable ...
    Folksonomies: environmentalism
    Folksonomies: environmentalism
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    A scientist sees the damage being done by man to the environment with amazing prescience.

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