The Environmental Debate, Third Edition

Politicians, Naturalists, and Artists in the New Nation, 1776–1839 25 from which the rights of property originate, is not less a ...

26 The Environmental Debate But those of more discerning eye Even then could other prospects show, And saw him lay his Virgil by ...

Politicians, Naturalists, and Artists in the New Nation, 1776–1839 27 water pond played on the sight, through the dark grove, li ...

28 The Environmental Debate tree to the action of the sun, has the same effects upon the maple, that it has upon other trees, a ...

Politicians, Naturalists, and Artists in the New Nation, 1776–1839 29 of red clover instead of 3 years of fallow or rest, whethe ...

30 The Environmental Debate saying where he is to stop. But towards the extinc- tion of the passion between the sexes, no progre ...

Politicians, Naturalists, and Artists in the New Nation, 1776–1839 31 Document 27: Meriwether Lewis on the Slaughter of Buffaloe ...

32 The Environmental Debate Document 28: Act Establishing the First Federal Forest Reserve (1817) The first national effort to s ...

Politicians, Naturalists, and Artists in the New Nation, 1776–1839 33 snipes, larks and robins, at any time from the first day o ...

34 The Environmental Debate Document 31: George Catlin’s Proposal for a National Park (1832) George Catlin, who traveled in the ...

Politicians, Naturalists, and Artists in the New Nation, 1776–1839 35 Indians who are joint tenants with them, in the occupancy ...

36 The Environmental Debate My reason teaches me that land cannot be sold. The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon ...

The acquisition of the Oregon Territory in 1846 and the Mexican Cession of 1848 expanded the United States’ western border to th ...

reasons.2 These new sewer systems, however, like the older sewer systems in Boston and New York, were designed simply to dump ra ...

the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries had attempted to identify, describe, and classify all the known species of pl ...

40 The Environmental Debate other living things. The idea that humans might have evolved from a common ancestry with apes caused ...

The Origins of Environmental Activism, 1840–1889 41 federal levels for the passage of laws that encour- aged conservation. In 18 ...

42 The Environmental Debate Document 34: Thomas Cole’s Lament of the Forest (1841) A distinguished member of the Hudson River sc ...

The Origins of Environmental Activism, 1840–1889 43 on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infi ...

44 The Environmental Debate on system shooting like rays, upward, downward, without centre, without circumference,—in the mass a ...