Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.George Perkins MarshMan and Nature · 1864★ 5.2
SpeechWe have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.Barbara Wand1972★ 5.2
Autobiography and memoirBy avarice and selfishness, and a grovelling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property...the landscape is deformed.Henry David ThoreauWalden · 1854★ 3.9