...but all too often, whether from simple lack of knowledge or from carelessness about results, it had "brought the face of the earth to a desolation almost as complete as that of the moon " (Marsh [1864] 1965: 42). Though it has taken more than a century to be fully appreciated, Man and...

...were the once lush lands surrounding the Mediterranean. There were places in the Old World, he warned, where "the operation of causes set in action by man...desolation almost as complete as that of the moon." Just as Agassiz came to very different conclusions about the past than his contemporaries, Marsh, by...

...however, Marsh saw in parts of the Old World "the operation of causes set in action by man" that had "brought the face of the earth to a desolation almost as complete as that of the moon." 30 Here was the genesis of the idea that was to have considerable influence on subsequent conservationist...

...movement." In one of the best-known passages of his classic work, Man and Nature ( 1 864), Marsh wrote: There are parts of Asia Minor, of Northern Africa,...moon; and though, within that brief space of time which we call "the historical period," they are known to have been covered with luxuriant woods, verdant...

...retention and management of America's western mountains as federal commons. As Marsh told Americans: There are parts of Asia Minor, of Northern Africa,...desolation almost as complete as that of the moon. 22 Marsh fashioned the first compelling linkages between forest cover and streamflow and was able to...

...suffered, Marsh warned, might become the fate of the New. At Pegli he penned his most telling omen: There are parts of Asia Minor, of Northern Africa,...desolation almost as complete as that of the moon.. . . The earth is fast becoming an unfit home for its noblest inhabitant, and another era of equal human...

...retention and management of America's western mountains as federal commons. As Marsh told Americans: There are parts of Asia Minor, of Northern Africa,...to a desolation almost as complete as that of the moon.22 Marsh fashioned the first compelling linkages between forest cover and streamflow and was able...

...(1864: 42-3): [In] parts of Asia Minor, of Northern Atnca, of Greece, and even of Alpine Europe... the operation of causes set in action by man has brought...desolation almost as complete; as that of the moon. . . . The earth is fast becomiog an unfit home tor its noblest iohabitant, and another era of equal...

...ours. Consider the portent in George Perkins Marsh's pioneering Man and Nature (1965/1864: 42-43): [In] parts of Asia Minor, of Northern Africa, of Greece, and even of Alpine Europe, ... the operation of causes set in action by man has brought the face of the earth to a desolation...

...becomes an assemblage of bald mountains, of barren turfless hills, and of swampy and malarious plains. There are parts of Asia Minor, of Northern Africa, of Greece and even Alpine Europe, where the operation of causes set in action by man, has brought the face of the earth...