Man is, in both kind and degree, a power of a higher order than any of the other forms of animated life, which, like him, are nourished at the table of bounteous nature.


Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action, Preface (p. iii), Charles Scribner & Co. 1865

George Perkins Marsh Quotes

Man is, in both kind and degree, a power of a higher order than any of the other forms of animated life, which, like him, are nourished at the table...

Man is, in both kind and degree, a power of a higher order than any of the other forms of animated life, which, like him, are nourished at the table...

Man is, in both kind and degree, a power of a higher order than any of the other forms of animated life, which, like him, are nourished at the table...

Man is, in both kind and degree, a power of a higher order than any of the other forms of animated life, which, like him, are nourished at the table...