The great question, whether man is of nature or above her.

- George Perkins Marsh

Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art.

- George Perkins Marsh

Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical tru…

- 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.

- George Perkins Marsh

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 proportio…

- George Perkins Marsh

Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.

- George Perkins Marsh

Apart from the hostile influence of man, the organic and the inorganic world are ... bound together by such mutual relations and adaptations s secure…

- George Perkins Marsh

When not protected by law, by popular favor or superstition, or by other special circumstances, [birds] yield very readily to the influences of civil…

- George Perkins Marsh

The equation of animal and vegetable life is too complicated a problem for human intelligence to solve, and we can never know how wide a circle of di…

- George Perkins Marsh