Download or read book Nature and Man in America Classic Reprint written by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Nature and Man in America Modern science unhappily appears to be in con fliot with the religious traditions of our race. The development of our knowledge of Nature has led to a loss of the old confidence in the conditions of human life. Our fathers rejoiced in the conviction that they came directly from the Creator's hands. It is now evident to us that our being is due to what 'we term more natural causes, that man's body has been slowly evolved from the earth, passing onward through inconceivable stages, each leading upward from the level of the lowest organic life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Man and Nature Or Physical Geography written by George Perkins Marsh and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Origin and History of the English Language and of the Early Literature it Embodies written by George Perkins Marsh and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nature and Man Classic Reprint written by Solomon Oliver Osborn and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Nature and Man And now, after so long time, I remember, as though it were but yesterday, that when the time came for me to go, mother followed me to the Open door Of the clean little home in Sauk City, Wis., in the year 1856, and, after her final good counsel, bade me good-bye. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Reel Nature written by Gregg Mitman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans have had a long-standing love affair with the wilderness. As cities grew and frontiers disappeared, film emerged to feed an insatiable curiosity about wildlife. The camera promised to bring us into contact with the animal world, undetected and unarmed. Yet the camera's penetration of this world has inevitably brought human artifice and technology into the picture as well. In the first major analysis of American nature films in the twentieth century, Gregg Mitman shows how our cultural values, scientific needs, and new technologies produced the images that have shaped our contemporary view of wildlife. Like the museum and the zoo, the nature film sought to recreate the experience of unspoiled nature while appealing to a popular audience, through a blend of scientific research and commercial promotion, education and entertainment, authenticity and artifice. Travelogue-expedition films, like Teddy Roosevelt's African safari, catered to upper- and middle-class patrons who were intrigued by the exotic and entertained by the thrill of big-game hunting and collecting. The proliferation of nature movies and television shows in the 1950s, such as Disney's True-Life Adventures and Marlin Perkins's Wild Kingdom, made nature familiar and accessible to America's baby-boom generation, fostering the environmental activism of the latter part of the twentieth century. Reel Nature reveals the shifting conventions of nature films and their enormous impact on our perceptions of, and politics about, the environment. Whether crafted to elicit thrills or to educate audiences about the real-life drama of threatened wildlife, nature films then and now reveal much about the yearnings of Americans to be both close to nature and yet distinctly apart.
Download or read book The Faith of a Quaker Classic Reprint written by John William Graham and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Faith of a Quaker There arise also the insistent questions which beset all mystics, and which in Quakerism demanded a corporate, instead of an individual, answer. Was the light infallible? Was the claim to it an assumption of spiritual exaltation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Wild Nature s Ways Classic Reprint written by R. Kearton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wild Nature's Ways Job said, Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee, and no man who has ever honestly taken this advice to heart is in a position to gainsay its truth. To learn to appreciate the beauties of the world in which we live is a great victory. It establishes within us a never-failing source of pleasure, and enhances the value of existence a thousandfold. I would not exchange the every day joys of a healthy observant ploughman for the worrying wealth and cares of a millionaire. The idea that to be rich in gold is to be happy is a dying, vulgar fallacy. Men are coming to know that there are greater possessions than those which can be measured by the surveyor's chain or locked in iron safes. A love of Nature is one of them, and it has the unspeakably good quality of endurance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Nature Writers in the United States Classic Reprint written by Agatha Boyd Adams and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-22 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Nature Writers in the United States Note that his age at the time of writing each section is given of the page. Trace the development of his style and thought. What reflections of contemporary events, such as the Civil War, Spanish American War, and World War I, do you find in these journals? Were there any such comments in Muir's journals? Which of the two men is more genuinely the hermit and mystic? Trace the major literary influences in Burroughs' writing. Note that he is the most literary of any of the writers we have studied so far. His remarks on Walden are especially interesting. Burroughs was a man of many friends, who knew most Of the interest ing people of his time. Give his account Of some Of them. He was one Of the first to appreciate Walt Whitman, and to have the courage to say so, in an age when Whitman was thought of as a reprobate and no poet. Discuss his comments on Whitman, scattered throughout the journals. See also The Flight Of the Eagle in Birds and Poets. Compare the aspects of nature which especially appealed to Burroughs with those which aroused the worship Of Muir. They are as different as the parts Of the country involved. Note that Burroughs' pleasure in nature is confined to the northeastern part Of the United States. He is even, by his own confession, unable to see the mountains at Tryon. Burroughs reveals more of his personal life here than does Muir. Com ment on his religious feeling. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book How Man Conquered Nature Classic Reprint written by Minnie Josephine Reynolds and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from How Man Conquered Nature When we say man in this story, we mean men and women the human race. Just as when we say the lion is a fierce beast, we mean the lioness as well as the lion. Some of the animal families with which man started the race have vanished from the earth. They have been killed off by man, or have died out from other reasons. A few others, like the horse, dog, cow and sheep, have changed very much, because man has taken charge of them, as we shall see later. But what we call the Wild animals remain practically the same now as when the story starts, many thousands Of years ago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Man and Nature written by George P. Marsh and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Perkins Marsh is often considered America's first environmentalist. Perkins was a diplomat, author, and philologist, and far ahead of his time in terms of his views on the environment. Man and Nature, or Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action presents readers with the opportunity to read the words of the father of the environmental movement in the United States. The book begins with an introduction that presents ancient Rome as a case study for the importance of conservationism. Marsh uses a variety of sources to paint a picture of Rome as an area ripe with natural resources that were over utilized and eventually destroyed by man's actions. The second chapter discusses the effects of transferring and modifying vegetable and animal species, and argues for organic life as vital to environmental sustainability. The book goes on to examine specific ecosystems, and the impacts man has had on them, including forests, bodies of water, and deserts. March concludes his work with a discussion of projected and possible changes to geography that man has caused, and the potential impacts of these changes. Marsh was clearly well ahead of his time in terms of his environmental attitudes. Man and Nature is a plea to readers to recognize the value of our natural landscapes and to ensure their protection. His words are every bit as poignant today as they were when they were written. Man and Nature, or Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action is a seminal text of the conservationist movement. It is a must read for any modern environmentalist, and a sad reminder that the issues facing man today have gone unresolved for nearly two centuries. This is an important work and one that deserves to be read by a wide audience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Animals Their Relation and Use to Man written by Carolyn Douglass Wood and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Animals, Their Relation and Use to Man: A Nature Study Textbook The amount of general knowledge regarding American wild life that countless thousands of Americans need to know as a business proposition is really great. By way of illustration, here are a few items: the birds that are useful to man and deserve protection; the birds that men and women are ruthlessly exterminating in ways that constitute a crime against nature; the mammals that are of most value and those that are of the greatest interest to mankind; the mammals that are most destructive to man's pos sessions and which need to be destroyed; the fishes that need perpetuation and propagation as a cheap food supply for the poor; the conservation of marine life generally; the reptiles that, are deadly and those that are harmless the reptiles that are useful to man; the insects that are injurious, and how to cope with them; the crustaceans and mollusks that can be cultivated and perpetuated by intelligent effort. These few items relate to the utilitarian or commercial side of life, but of themselves alone they are sufficient to demand a com plete revolution in the method of teaching zoology. But there is another consideration quite as high as the utilitarian side of zoological knowledge, and that is, the duty of every intelligent American to obtain a good general knowledge of the most inter esting animal species of his own continent, because of the immense amount of pleasure to be derived by him through that knowledge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Man s True Relation to Nature written by Thomas Pardon Wilson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Man's True Relation to Nature: His Origin, Character and Destiny For this, we are indebted to the brief contact we then enjoyed with the young, aspiring and energizing west. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book My First Seven Years in America Classic Reprint written by George Coles and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from My First Seven Years in America Some objections may possibly lie against this mode of proceeding, even when it has been adopted from the purest motives. A man may be tempted to say more of him self than the nature of the case will justify. He may' be in danger of speaking too highly of himself; for it is a well-known fact, that those persons who do speak often of themselves are apt to do it in terms of self-commendation, either directly, or in directly; and this, in the estimation of many, savors too much of personal vanity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Friends Worth Knowing written by Ernest Ingersoll and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-18 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Friends Worth Knowing: Glimpses of American Natural History Two-thirds Of. The persons to whom I Show the little land and fresh-water mollusks in my snailery either start back with an Oh! The horrid things! Which causes me some amusement, or else gaze straight out Of the window, saying languidly, how interesting! Which hurts my pride. I confess, therefore, that it is contrary to experi ence to attempt to interest general readers with an ac. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Natural History Vol 49 written by Edward M. Weyer Jr. and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-25 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Natural History, Vol. 49: The Magazine of the American Museum of Natural History; January-May, 1942 E OF the Museum believe that Man's ignorance, selfishness, El and brutality must be combatted by teaching old and new truths of Nature and that Nature will provide both the knowledge and faith upon which Man can build for the future. These truths are revealed in the halls, laboratories and teachings of our Museum. We proclaim a world where people live in harmony with Nature, and this presupposes Man's greater knowledge of Nature and his relationship to the world and his fellow man. Appreciating Nature, Man will conserve and utilize - not waste and destroy its resources so that these resources will be available for human betterment. It is also essential for Man to control forces within himself. This requires more fundamental knowledge of Man's origins, physical make-up, and above all, his instincts and emotions. Man is said to be the slave of his emotions. But the pages of history show that selfish leaders use their knowledge of human psychology to enslave Man. The Museum proclaims that Man, through greater enlighten ment and better understanding, will free himself from such slavery and build a social framework strong enough to bear the weight of the future. The source material upon which these fundamental truths are based are all present in our vast collections and researches thereon. Furthermore, we have the opportunity of bringing out these truths in interesting and striking exhibits and teaching for the enlightenment of the millions of people who pass through our halls, read our publi cations, listen to our broadcasts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Seeing America Vol 1 written by Walter B. Pitkin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Seeing America, Vol. 1: Farm and Field To present such a volume has been our task. We have tried to weave into a story of elemental human interest the maximum information about the production of raw materials, about the difficulties and dangers men endure in order to furnish their fellows with the necessities of life, about the wonders of modern machinery, about man's natural enemies in farm; forest, and field, and about the need of conserving our natural resources. The nice problem of balancing story interest against solid information seems to have been solved pretty well; but, of course, the final verdict rests with teachers and pupils. Grateful acknowledgment is made to chambers of commerce, to editors of farm magazines, and to agricultural colleges too numer ous to mention by name here. These institutions have supplied us with a precious fund of special information more minute than is to be found in the usual reference books. Only a little of it all appears on the, surface of the narrative. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Nature and Man Lecture Classic Reprint written by Edwin Ray Lankester and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Nature and Man Lecture It is a pleasure to me, at this moment, to call to mind my friendship with the gifted man who founded this lectureship, and to join my tribute with that of so many others, to his high qualities. The know ledge of Nature lost a true and eager searcher when his labours ceased. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
