Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Man and Nature

Man and Nature ORGANIZATION & ENVIRONMENT Marsh / MAN / June AND 2002 NATURE GEORGE PERKINS MARSH DESTRUCTIVENESS OF MAN Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste. Nature has provided against the absolute destruction of any of her elementary matter, the raw material of her works; the thunderbolt and the tornado, the most convulsive throes of even the volcano and the earthquake, beingonly phenomena of decomposition and recomposition. But she has left it within the power of man irreparably to derange the combinations of inorganic matter and of organic life, which through the night of æons she had been proportioningand balancing, to prepare the earth for his habitation, when, in the fulness of time, his Creator should call him forth to enter into its possession. Apart from the hostile influence of man, the organic and the inorganic world are, as I have remarked, bound together by such mutual relations and adaptations as secure, if not the absolute permanence and equilibrium of both, a longcontinuance of the established conditions of each at any given time and place, or at least, a very slow and gradual succession of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Organization & Environment SAGE

Man and Nature

Marsh, George Perkins
Organization & Environment , Volume 15 (2): 8 – Jun 1, 2002
Download PDF
8 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/sage/man-and-nature-01eFN4KlAM

References (0)

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
SAGE
Copyright
Copyright © by SAGE Publications
ISSN
1086-0266
eISSN
1552-7417
DOI
10.1177/10826602015002004
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

ORGANIZATION & ENVIRONMENT Marsh / MAN / June AND 2002 NATURE GEORGE PERKINS MARSH DESTRUCTIVENESS OF MAN Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste. Nature has provided against the absolute destruction of any of her elementary matter, the raw material of her works; the thunderbolt and the tornado, the most convulsive throes of even the volcano and the earthquake, beingonly phenomena of decomposition and recomposition. But she has left it within the power of man irreparably to derange the combinations of inorganic matter and of organic life, which through the night of æons she had been proportioningand balancing, to prepare the earth for his habitation, when, in the fulness of time, his Creator should call him forth to enter into its possession. Apart from the hostile influence of man, the organic and the inorganic world are, as I have remarked, bound together by such mutual relations and adaptations as secure, if not the absolute permanence and equilibrium of both, a longcontinuance of the established conditions of each at any given time and place, or at least, a very slow and gradual succession of

Journal

Organization & Environment – SAGE

Published: Jun 1, 2002

There are no references for this article.