George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation.University of Washington Press, 2000. After undertaking a revision of his 1958 book George Perkins Marsh George Perkins Marsh (March 15, 1801 – July 23, 1882), an American diplomat and philologist, is considered by some to be America's first environmentalist. [1] The Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in Vermont takes its name, in part, from Marsh. , Versatile Vermonter, author David Lowenthal soon realized his 40 years of research on Marsh required that he write a wholly new biography. "I had to reconsider histories, reassess motives and outcomes, revise and reverse judgements," he writes. The result is an impressive historical biography rich in detail, context, and insight. Foremost, it is a masterful analysis of the impact of Marsh's monumental Man and Nature, published in 1862, which "brought environmental awareness and reform not just to America but to the whole world," according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Lowenthal. The author's intimate involvement with Marsh's life story for more than 50 years allows him to give the reader a sense of actually being present during Marsh's life and times (1801-1882). Lowenthal's seemingly firsthand familiarity with Marsh is reflected in exquisite descriptions of life in the 19th century. Lowenthal is emphatic that Marsh's conservation philosophy is as valid now as it was a century ago, and he carefully dismantles the claims of some environmentalists that Marsh was too "optimistic, utilitarian, technocratic, manipulative toward nature" to be relevant today. Rather, he concludes that, "Man and Nature marked the inception of a truly modern way of looking at the world" and that Marsh "was the first to show that human actions had unintended consequences For the "Law of unintended consequences", see Unintended consequence Unintended Consequences is a novel by author John Ross, first published in 1996 by Accurate Press. of unforeseeable Un`fore`see´a`ble a. 1. Incapable of being foreseen. Adj. 1. unforeseeable - incapable of being anticipated; "unforeseeable consequences" unpredictable - not capable of being foretold magnitude." No brief review of this remarkable 600-page book can do justice to the complex and fascinating portrait the author paints of a person ahead of his time, a man for all seasons This article is about the play. For other uses, see A Man for All Seasons (disambiguation). A Man for All Seasons is a play by Robert Bolt. An early form of the play had been written for BBC Radio in 1954, but after Bolt's success with . It must he read by anyone who cares about the future of the world environment and who treasures the wisdom of the past as exemplified in George Perkins George Perkins is the name of:
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