Man and nature

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Blake, William. The Notebook of William Blake. c. 1811.

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Blake, William. "Great things are done when Men & Mountains meet." The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. University of California Press, 2008.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Journal entry. 11 May 1838.

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Genesis 1:28).

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Bacon, Francis. Novum Organum. London: John Beale, 1620, bk. 1, no. 3.

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Bacon, Francis. The New Organon. Translated by Michael Silverthorne. Cambridge UP, 2000, bk. 1, no. 3.

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Maclean, Norman. "A River Runs Through it." A River Runs Through It and Other Stories. University of Chicago Press, 1976.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Life Without Principle." The Atlantic, Oct. 1863.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Life Without Principle." Walden and Other Writings. Modern Library, 2000.

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

Barbara Wand

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Wand, Barbara. Spoken at the Only One Earth: The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet conference. United Nations Conference on the Human Environment. June 1972, Stockholm, Sweden.

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Fuller, Richard Buckminster. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. Simon and Schuster, 1969, ch. 4.

Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.

George Perkins Marsh

Man and Nature

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Marsh, George Perkins. Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action. New York: Charles Scribner, 1864, ch. 1.

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Marsh, George Perkins. Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action. Dover Publications, 2021, ch. 1.

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Beston, Henry. The Outermost House. Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1928, ch. 1.

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Beston, Henry. The Outermost House. Holt Paperbacks, 2003, ch. 1.

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Leopold, Aldo. "The Land Ethic." A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There. Oxford University Press, 1949.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Spring." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Spring." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.

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Horace. Epistularum liber primus [First Book of Letters]. 20 BC, bk. 1, epistle 10.

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Horace. "Epistles." Satires and Epistles, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 1, epistle 10.

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Point Break. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, Johnny Utah Productions/Largo Entertainment, 1991.

Drunk we lie down in empty hills,
heaven and earth our quilt and pillow.

Li Bai

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Li Po. A Night With a Friend. c. 762.

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Li Po. "A Night With a Friend." The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry, translated and edited by Burton Watson. Columbia University Press, 1984.

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Pascal, Blaise. Pensées [Thoughts]. Paris: Chez G. Desprez, 1670, no. 347.

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Pascal, Blaise. "Pensées." Pensées and Other Writings, edited by Anthony Levi, translated by Honor Levi. Oxford University Press, 2008, no. 347.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Journal entry. 25 May 1843.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 4.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, bk. 4.

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Da Vinci, Leonardo. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. c. 1883.

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Thoreau, Henry David. Journal entry. 23 Aug. 1853.

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Thoreau, Henry David. The Heart of Thoreau's Journals, edited by Odell Shepard. Dover Publications, 1961.