The earth is fast becoming an unfit home for its noblest inhabitant, and another era of equal human crime and human improvidence, and of like duration with that through which traces of that crime and... Forest Culture and Eucalyptus Trees - Page 10by Ellwood Cooper - 1876 - 237 pagesFull view - About this book
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1879 - 378 pages
...and human improvidence, and of like duration with that through which traces of that crime and of that improvidence extend, would reduce it to such a condition...excess, as to threaten the depravation, barbarism, and even extinction of the species." (Marsh, op. cit.) There is, certainly, a partial reverse of this picture... | |
| George Perkins Marsh - Conservation of natural resources - 1864 - 592 pages
...and human improvidence, and of like duration with that through which traces of that crime and that improvidence extend, would reduce it to such a condition...barbarism, and perhaps even extinction of the species.* Physical Improtement. Tnie, there is a partial reverse to this picture. On narrow theatres, new forests... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1864 - 442 pages
...and that improvidence extend, would reduce it to such a condition of impoverished destructiveness, of shattered surface, of climatic excess, as to threaten...barbarism, and perhaps even extinction of the species." — pp. 43, 44. " It is, in general, true, that the intervention of man has hitherto seemed to insure... | |
| Great Britain - 1865 - 792 pages
...and human improvidence, and of like duration with that through which traces of that crime and that improvidence extend, would reduce it to such a condition...to threaten the depravation, barbarism, and perhaps oven extinction of the species' (p. 44). This may be full of force as a warning, but can hardly be... | |
| United States. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1866 - 656 pages
...have no prospective control. " The earth is fast becoming an unfit home for its noblest inhabitant, and another era of equal human crime and human improvidence,...barbarism, and, perhaps, even extinction of the species. " The destructive changes occasioned by the agency of man upon the flanks of the Alps, the Appenines,... | |
| United States Commissioner of Agriculture - 1866 - 660 pages
...have no prospective control. " The earth is fast becoming an unfit home for its noblest inhabitant, and another era of equal human crime and human improvidence,...barbarism, and, perhaps, even extinction of the species. " The destructive changes occasioned by the agency of man upon the flank* of the Alps, the Appenines,... | |
| Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture - 1866 - 664 pages
...have no prospective control. " The earth is fast becoming an unfit home for its noblest inhabitant, and another era of equal human crime and human improvidence,...threaten the depravation, barbarism, and, perhaps, eren extinction of the species. " It is certain that a desolation like that which has overwhelmed many... | |
| Floriculture - 1868 - 410 pages
...fertile meadows. They are now too far deteriorated to be reclaimed by man ; nor can they again become fitted for human use, except through great geological...shattered surface, of climatic excess, as to threaten the deprivation, barbarism, and perhaps even extinction, of the species. " The destructive changes occasioned... | |
| Massachusetts wood preserving Co - 1868 - 80 pages
...have no prospective control. " ' The earth is fast becoming an unfit home for its noblest inhabitant, and another era of equal human crime and human improvidence,...barbarism, and, perhaps, even extinction of the species. " ' The destructive changes occasioned by the agency of man upon the flanks of the Alps, the Apennines,... | |
| National Patent Wood Preserving Company - 1868 - 206 pages
...have no prospective control. " The earth is fast becoming an unfit home for its noblest inhabitant, and another era of equal human crime and human improvidence,...barbarism, and, perhaps, even extinction of the species. " The destructive changes occasioned by the agency of man upon the flanks of the Alps, the Appenincs,... | |
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