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New Introduction by David Lowenthal (2003)

Man and Nature (1864)

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Others taught that “the earth made man”; Man and Nature would show that “man in fact made the earth.” Men fell trees, clear the land, till the soil, dam rivers. Was nature the same afterward? Did streams flow as before? Were plants, fish, birds, animals unchanged? Assuredly not.

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© 2014 Forster O. Ndubisi

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Marsh, G.P. (2014). New Introduction by David Lowenthal (2003). In: Ndubisi, F.O. (eds) The Ecological Design and Planning Reader. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-491-8_5

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