Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

Лесов все меньше и меньше, реки сохнут, дичь перевелась, климат испорчен, и с каждым днем земля становится все беднее и безобразнее.

Anton Chekhov

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Environmental destruction

Speaker

Mikhail Lvovich Astrov

Author

Anton Chekhov

Source

Uncle Vanya

Medium

Play

Language

Russian

Time

1897 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Writer

From

Russia Europe

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Original Citation

Chekhov, Anton. Dyadya Vanya. 1897, act 1.

Current Citation

Chekhov, Anton. "Uncle Vanya." Plays: Ivanov; The Seagull' Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard, translated by Peter Carson. Penguin Classics, 2002, act 1.

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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

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The Principles of Psychology

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The Principles of Psychology
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1890 1890s 19th century
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James, William. The Principles of Psychology. Vol. 1, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1890, ch. 9.

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If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once, be dried up.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Source
The Brothers Karamazov
Medium
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Language
Russian
Time
1879 1870s 19th century
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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. "Братья Карамазовы [The Brothers Karamazov]." The Russian Messenger, Jan. 1879 - Nov. 1880. Serial.

Current Citation

Dostoevsky, Feodor. The Brothers Karamazov, translated by David McDuff. Penguin Classics, 2003.