Changes in the Land Quotes

“[T]he people of plenty were a people of waste.”
― William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

“The beaver, in other words, had ceased to be an object of use, conserved because the need for it was slight; instead, it had become a commodity of exchange, conserved because the need for it was great.”
― William Cronon, Changes in the Land