The Earth As Modified By Human Action Quotes

“To the natural philosopher, the descriptive poet, the painter, and the sculptor, as well as to the common observer, the power most important to cultivate, and, at the same time, hardest to acquire is that of seeing what is before him. Sight is a faculty; seeing, an art.”
― George Perkins Marsh, Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography As Modified by Human Action

“This exercise of the eye I desire to promote, and, next to moral and religious doctrine, I know no more important practical lesson in this earthly life of ours … than those relating to the employment of the sense of vision in the study of nature.”
― George Perkins Marsh, Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography As Modified by Human Action