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Excerpt from Nature and Man in America Modern science unhappily appears to be in con fliot with the religious traditions of our race. The development of our knowledge of Nature has led to a loss of the old confidence in the conditions of human life. Our fathers rejoiced in the conviction that they came directly from the Creator's hands. It is now evident to us that our being is due to what 'we term more natural causes, that man's body has been slowly evolved from the earth, passing onward through inconceivable stages, each leading upward from the level of the lowest organic life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Nature and Man And now, after so long time, I remember, as though it were but yesterday, that when the time came for me to go, mother followed me to the Open door Of the clean little home in Sauk City, Wis., in the year 1856, and, after her final good counsel, bade me good-bye. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from How Man Conquered Nature When we say man in this story, we mean men and women the human race. Just as when we say the lion is a fierce beast, we mean the lioness as well as the lion. Some of the animal families with which man started the race have vanished from the earth. They have been killed off by man, or have died out from other reasons. A few others, like the horse, dog, cow and sheep, have changed very much, because man has taken charge of them, as we shall see later. But what we call the Wild animals remain practically the same now as when the story starts, many thousands Of years ago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The Faith of a Quaker There arise also the insistent questions which beset all mystics, and which in Quakerism demanded a corporate, instead of an individual, answer. Was the light infallible? Was the claim to it an assumption of spiritual exaltation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Wild Nature's Ways Job said, Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee, and no man who has ever honestly taken this advice to heart is in a position to gainsay its truth. To learn to appreciate the beauties of the world in which we live is a great victory. It establishes within us a never-failing source of pleasure, and enhances the value of existence a thousandfold. I would not exchange the every day joys of a healthy observant ploughman for the worrying wealth and cares of a millionaire. The idea that to be rich in gold is to be happy is a dying, vulgar fallacy. Men are coming to know that there are greater possessions than those which can be measured by the surveyor's chain or locked in iron safes. A love of Nature is one of them, and it has the unspeakably good quality of endurance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Nature Writers in the United States Note that his age at the time of writing each section is given of the page. Trace the development of his style and thought. What reflections of contemporary events, such as the Civil War, Spanish American War, and World War I, do you find in these journals? Were there any such comments in Muir's journals? Which of the two men is more genuinely the hermit and mystic? Trace the major literary influences in Burroughs' writing. Note that he is the most literary of any of the writers we have studied so far. His remarks on Walden are especially interesting. Burroughs was a man of many friends, who knew most Of the interest ing people of his time. Give his account Of some Of them. He was one Of the first to appreciate Walt Whitman, and to have the courage to say so, in an age when Whitman was thought of as a reprobate and no poet. Discuss his comments on Whitman, scattered throughout the journals. See also The Flight Of the Eagle in Birds and Poets. Compare the aspects of nature which especially appealed to Burroughs with those which aroused the worship Of Muir. They are as different as the parts Of the country involved. Note that Burroughs' pleasure in nature is confined to the northeastern part Of the United States. He is even, by his own confession, unable to see the mountains at Tryon. Burroughs reveals more of his personal life here than does Muir. Com ment on his religious feeling. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
George Perkins Marsh is often considered America's first environmentalist. Perkins was a diplomat, author, and philologist, and far ahead of his time in terms of his views on the environment. Man and Nature, or Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action presents readers with the opportunity to read the words of the father of the environmental movement in the United States. The book begins with an introduction that presents ancient Rome as a case study for the importance of conservationism. Marsh uses a variety of sources to paint a picture of Rome as an area ripe with natural resources that were over utilized and eventually destroyed by man's actions. The second chapter discusses the effects of transferring and modifying vegetable and animal species, and argues for organic life as vital to environmental sustainability. The book goes on to examine specific ecosystems, and the impacts man has had on them, including forests, bodies of water, and deserts. March concludes his work with a discussion of projected and possible changes to geography that man has caused, and the potential impacts of these changes. Marsh was clearly well ahead of his time in terms of his environmental attitudes. Man and Nature is a plea to readers to recognize the value of our natural landscapes and to ensure their protection. His words are every bit as poignant today as they were when they were written. Man and Nature, or Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action is a seminal text of the conservationist movement. It is a must read for any modern environmentalist, and a sad reminder that the issues facing man today have gone unresolved for nearly two centuries. This is an important work and one that deserves to be read by a wide audience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Animals, Their Relation and Use to Man: A Nature Study Textbook The amount of general knowledge regarding American wild life that countless thousands of Americans need to know as a business proposition is really great. By way of illustration, here are a few items: the birds that are useful to man and deserve protection; the birds that men and women are ruthlessly exterminating in ways that constitute a crime against nature; the mammals that are of most value and those that are of the greatest interest to mankind; the mammals that are most destructive to man's pos sessions and which need to be destroyed; the fishes that need perpetuation and propagation as a cheap food supply for the poor; the conservation of marine life generally; the reptiles that, are deadly and those that are harmless the reptiles that are useful to man; the insects that are injurious, and how to cope with them; the crustaceans and mollusks that can be cultivated and perpetuated by intelligent effort. These few items relate to the utilitarian or commercial side of life, but of themselves alone they are sufficient to demand a com plete revolution in the method of teaching zoology. But there is another consideration quite as high as the utilitarian side of zoological knowledge, and that is, the duty of every intelligent American to obtain a good general knowledge of the most inter esting animal species of his own continent, because of the immense amount of pleasure to be derived by him through that knowledge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Man's True Relation to Nature: His Origin, Character and Destiny For this, we are indebted to the brief contact we then enjoyed with the young, aspiring and energizing west. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.