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	So Great a Vision: the conservation writings of George Perkins Marsh
		George Perkins Marsh was the quintessential Renaissance man. During the course of his long and productive life he was, at various stages and with different degrees of success, a lawyer, businessman, inventor, scholar of languages (coming to speak at least twenty), art collector, politician, bureaucrat, diplomat, explorer, and architect.
		Marsh was born in 1801 in Woodstock, Vermont.
		Marsh was despondent after Harriet’s death, a state that contributed to the decline of his law practice, and for many years he isolated himself from society and spent his time in the study of Scandinavian languages.
	community.middlebury.edu /~trombula/GPMarsh.htm (2772 words)

	George Perkins Marsh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Perkins Marsh (March 15, 1801 – July 23, 1882), an American diplomat and philologist, he is considered by some to be America's first environmentalist.
		Born in Woodstock, Vermont, he graduated from Dartmouth College in 1820, was admitted to the bar in 1825, and practised law in Burlington, Vermont; he also devoted himself also to philological studies.
		Marsh was an able linguist, fluently writing and speaking the Scandinavian and half a dozen other European languages, a remarkable philologist for his day, and a scholar of great breadth, knowing much of military science, engraving and physics, as well as of Icelandic, which was his specialty.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Perkins_Marsh (526 words)

	Marsh Billings Rockefeller National Historical Park-Marsh
		Marsh was educated at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire and taught Greek and Latin before becoming a lawyer and moving to Burlington, Vermont.
		Marsh began the diplomatic phase of his career in 1849, when he was appointed to serve as the Minister to the Court at Constantinople.
		Marsh's Man and Nature marked the inception of a truly modern way of looking at the world, of thinking about how people live in and react on the fabric of landscape they inhabit.
	www.nps.gov /mabi/mabi/aboutthisplace/marsh.htm (947 words)

	George Perkin Marsh Online Research Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Marsh and his brother Charles, a Woodstock, Vermont, farmer, made several attempts to measure the elevation of Vermont mountains, and Marsh kept in contact with leading geographers of the day to find more accurate instruments to measure temperature and ascertain the exact landmass of the state.
		Marsh's friendship with Hiram Powers, begun when both were children on neighboring Woodstock farms, led to a correspondence in which Powers not only described the trials and tribulations of a working sculptor, but discussed his ideas about classical and contemporary works in some detail.
		Lawyer, diplomat, and scholar, Marsh, was born on March 15, 1801 at Woodstock, Vermont.
	bailey.uvm.edu /specialcollections/gpmorc.html (1970 words)

	Clark University - George Perkins Marsh Institute - About (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		George Perkins Marsh was a extraordinary man, a person of boundless energy, endless enthusiasms and immense intelligence.
		Marsh was the first to describe the interdependence of environmental and social relationships.
		It is in the spirit of this genius of pursuing an understanding of nature-society relationships that characterizes the work of the George Perkins Marsh Institute at Clark University.
	www.clarku.edu /departments/marsh/georgemarsh.shtml (1240 words)

	§30. George Perkins Marsh. XXV. Scholars. Vol. 18. Later National Literature, Part III. The Cambridge History of ...
		Marsh’s Lowell Institute lectures of 1860–61, The Origin and History of the English Language (1862), were much more distinctly historical.
		They come down chronologically from “Origin and Composition of the Anglo-Saxon People and Their Language” to “The English Language and Literature during the Reign of Elizabeth.” Marsh’s last and greatest foreign venture was his mission as our first minister to the Kingdom of Italy, to which he was appointed by Lincoln in 1861.
		Marsh was an early and frequent contributor to The Nation; prepared a number of articles, chiefly on Spanish, Catalan, and Italian literature, for Johnson’s Cyclopædia; and wrote monographs on The Camel (1856) and on Man and Nature (1865; afterwards issued as The Earth as Modified by Human Action, 1874).
	www.bartleby.com /228/0230.html (380 words)

	UPNE \| So Great a Vision (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Diplomat, linguist, politician, and naturalist, Vermonter George Perkins Marsh was a 19th-century polymath who is now widely considered the father of the modern conservation movement.
		Marsh was the first man to recognize the extent and destructiveness of the human impact on the environment, and his 1864 book, Man and Nature; or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action, has been described by the Washington Post as "the wellspring of the environmental movement."
		Born in Vermont and educated at Dartmouth College, GEORGE PERKINS MARSH (1801 - 1882) was a lawyer, politician, and linguist.
	www.upne.com /1-58465-129-6.html (387 words)

	George Perkins Marsh__First American Ambassador to Italy, First Ecologist
		Marsh's Man and nature; or, Physical geography as modified by human action was the most influential book of it's day, and it still exerts a mighty influence today.
		Marsh's revolutionary thesis was that, even though it was possible for human activity to improve on nature, it was obvious that, in most cases, the presence of humanity mostly had serious negative effects.
		Marsh also went the next step, calling for governments to take the necessary steps to repair damage already done, and that is something that often is also forgotten by today's ecological ideologues -- Marsh's supposed heirs, remember -- who seem to have a vast mistrust of governments.
	www.mmdtkw.org /VGPMarsh.html (1162 words)

	The Provincial Nature of George Perkins Marsh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		While many of Marsh's novel conservation insights were universal and true for citizens of all countries, his key warnings about degradation were characteristically American - having been interpreted, produced, and packaged by an American for Americans.
		This paper suggests that Marsh's warnings about degradation depended upon America's rising infatuation with its wild continent: not until a nation could view wildland as healthy and beneficent could one of its citizens suggest that enlightened humans often degraded it.
		Marsh ushered in a new paradigm of environmental damage that placed blame on culture rather than nature.
	www.erica.demon.co.uk /EH/EH1008.html (196 words)

	Forest Watch -- George Perkins Marsh—Vermont's Prophet of Conservation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This year’s Ides of March marks the bicentennial anniversary of the birth of George Perkins Marsh–arguably Vermont’s most famous, brilliant and influential native son, and indisputably the originator of the conservation movement.
		Marsh often read aloud the "exquisitely poetic" Thoreau, and Muir relied heavily on Marsh’s writings to support his successful advocacy to protect Yosemite’s watersheds and establish the nation’s first forest preserves, which later became national forests.
		In this year, the two hundredth anniversary of George Perkins Marsh’s birth, tension remains within the conservation movement between those who emphasize stewardship and kindly ("wise") resource use, and those who emphasize preservation and restoration of wild nature and the ecological processes that shape biodiversity.
	www.forestwatch.org /content.php?id=8 (806 words)

	Marsh Billings Rockefeller National Historical Park
		Geographer and author David Lowenthal has written a new biography of Woodstock's own George Perkins Marsh, the visionary conservationist who first warned of the disastrous effects humans were having upon the earth.
		George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation, builds upon Lowenthal's 1958 biography, George Perkins Marsh: Versatile Vermonter, and includes much new information, many new sources, and fresh insight into one of Vermont's most exceptional citizens.
		Marsh was the first of three generations of conservationist minded men and women to live on the site that is now the park.
	www.nps.gov /mabi/mabi/newnoteworthy/book.htm (365 words)

	Billings Farm and Museum of Woodstock, Vermont: News
		eorge Perkins Marsh (1801-1882) was the first to reveal the menace of environmental misuse, to explain its causes, and to prescribe reforms.
		Marsh's Man and Nature marked the inception of a truly modern way of looking at the world, of taking care less we irreversibly degrade the fabric of humanized nature we are bound to manage.
		George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation may be purchased through the Museum Shop for $40.
	www.billingsfarm.org /news/jpm_prophet.html (677 words)

	George Perkins Marsh
		George Perkins Marsh was from the Vermont of the privileged and prosperous settlement of the Connecticut Valley rather than that of the Green Mountain Boys.
		A native of Woodstock, he was the son of Charles Marsh, a Congressman and prominent attorney and grandson of Lt. Gov.
		Marsh began a rapid rise in politics in 1835.
	www.geocities.com /CollegePark/Quad/6460/bio/M/arshGP.html (565 words)

	George Perkins Marsh -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		An influential songwriter and guitarist, Perkins made fans of such artists as Presley and The Beatles as one of the founders of rockabilly—a hybrid of...
		New Zealand author Ngaio Marsh is known for her many detective novels featuring Inspector Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard and, in later novels, his wife Troy.
		In a dramatization, George Washington recalls crossing the Delaware, spending the winter at Valley Forge and defeating the British at the Battle of Yorktown.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9051097?&query=george (777 words)

	American Forests: George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation - by David Lowenthal, $40 - Review
		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 Lowenthal.
		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.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1016/is_1_107/ai_78399941 (402 words)

	(Chapter Two) Briassoulis
		Among the most well known pioneers of the study of land use change are George Perkins Marsh in the U.S.A. and J.H. von Thunen in Germany.
		The issue of land use is central (implicitly, at least) in Marsh’s work as all human activity takes place and modifies space for particular uses.
		Marsh’s comprehensive view of land, the natural environment and man’s role in causing environmental change is in the core of a host of nature-society theories and integrated models proposed in the years that followed and that are much in vogue in the present.
	www.rri.wvu.edu /WebBook/Briassoulis/Chapter2(Histoverview).htm (5530 words)

	Today in History: September 30
		Marsh recognized the human capacity for destruction of the environment and advocated better management of resources and active efforts toward restoration of the land, radical ideas for the period.
		Marsh, born in Woodstock, Vermont, was a lifelong spokesman for the preservation and care of natural resources.
		Marsh's book added to the momentum the conservation movement was gaining in the United States.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/today/sep30.html (1030 words)

	Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Park
		George Perkins Marsh was born to a prominent family in Woodstock, Vermont in 1801 and spent his early childhood in a family home nearby.
		The mansion that was to become the centerpiece of the Marsh-Billings NHP was built for his growing family during the period 1805 to 1807.
		Marsh learned to read as a young child, and read with such intensity that his physician ordered him to stop reading at the age of seven, so that his eyesight might recover from the strain.
	webhost.bridgew.edu /jhayesboh/marsh-billings.htm (954 words)

	Amherst Magazine Fall 2002: Amherst Authors
		David Lowenthal's wonderful biography of George Perkins Marsh (George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation, University of Washington Press, 2000) is a good starting point for anyone interested in the roots of American environmentalism.
		Marsh is arguably the first person to chronicle systematically and thoroughly the environmental degradation for which humans have been responsible.
		Three recent books by historians cast new light on this effort, demonstrating how the push to establish parks and the regulation of logging, hunting, trapping and fishing put elite reformers on a collision course with the people who thought nature and its fruits were theirs for the taking.
	www.amherst.edu /magazine/issues/02fall/authors/reading.html (929 words)

	George Perkins Marsh Biography / Biography of George Perkins Marsh Main Biography
		George Perkins Marsh (1801-1882) is best remembered for his work Man and Nature (1864), which was later revised as The Earth as Modified by Human Action (1874).
		Marsh was born in Woodstock, Vermont on March 15, 1801.
		His father, Charles Marsh, a prominent local lawyer and district attorney for Vermont, established his estate in an idyllic setting along the Quechee River in the foothills of the Green Mountains.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-george-perkins-marsh (233 words)

	No. 807: Dromedaries in Texas
		George Perkins Marsh had suggested it in 1847.
		Marsh was a brilliant figure in American politics and letters.
		In 1848, Marsh and Davis served on the Smithsonian Institution's Executive Committee.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi807.htm (505 words)

	University of Washington Press
		George Perkins Marsh (1801-1882) was the first to reveal the menace of environmental misuse, to explain its causes, and to prescribe reforms.
		Marsh's devotion to the repair of nature, to the concerns of working people, to women's rights, and to historical stewardship resonate more than ever.
		The clue to its inception lies in Marsh's many-sided engagement in the life of his time.
	www.washington.edu /uwpress/newjune/gp_marsh.html (324 words)

	MARSH, George Perkins (1801-1882) Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		“George Perkins Marsh.” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, 1954.
		Remarks of George P. Marsh, of Vermont, on slavery in the territories of New Mexico, California and Oregon: Delivered in the House of Representatives, August 3d, 1848.
		Marsh, of Vermont, on the Mexican War, delivered in the House of Representatives of the U. S., February 10, 1848.
	bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/bibdisplay.pl?index=M000147 (356 words)

	UW Press: Search Books in Print
		David Lowenthal here offers fresh insights, from new sources, into Marsh's career and shows his relevance today, in a book which has its roots in but wholly supersedes Lowenthal's earlier biography George Perkins Marsh: Versatile Vermonter (1958).
		Like Darwin's Origin of Species, Marsh's Man and Nature marked the inception of a truly modern way of looking at the world, of taking care lest we irreversibly degrade the fabric of humanized nature we are bound to manage.
		George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation was awarded the Association for American Geographers' 2000 J. Jackson Prize.
	www.washington.edu /uwpress/search/books/LOWGEO.html (705 words)

	Ubcpress.ca :: University of British Columbia Press
		In Man and Nature, first published in 1864, polymath scholar and diplomat George Perkins Marsh challenged the general belief that human impact on nature was generally benign or negligible and charged that ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean had brought about their own collapse by their abuse of the environment.
		Marsh offered his compatriots in the United States a stern warning that the young American republic might repeat these errors of the ancient world if it failed to end its own destructive waste of natural resources.
		His books include George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation, The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History, and The Past Is a Foreign Country.
	www.ubcpress.ubc.ca /search/title_book.asp?BookID=4172 (473 words)

	Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller - Vermont's First National Park
		George Perkins Marsh changed our perception of human relationship to nature.
		Marsh was one of the first individuals to successfully argue that resources were finite and he foresaw the devastating effects on the environment we are witnessing today.
		He used the principles developed by Marsh to restore forests on the property and to help frame Vermont's first long-term forest policy.
	leahy.senate.gov /issues/environment/marshbillings.html (381 words)

	GEORGE PERKINS MARSH - LoveToKnow Article on GEORGE PERKINS MARSH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		GEORGE PERKINS MARSH - LoveToKnow Article on GEORGE PERKINS MARSH
		His second wife, CAROLINE (CRANE) MARSH (1816-1901), whom he married ~n 1839, published Wolfe of the Knoll and other Poems (1860), and the Life and Letters of George Perkins Marsh (New York, 1888).
		To properly cite this GEORGE PERKINS MARSH article in your work, copy the complete reference below:
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MARSH_GEORGE_PERKINS.htm (376 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Marsh to Marsha
		Marsh, Arthur — of Magna, Salt Lake County, Utah.
		Marsh, Harold — of Jackson, Jackson County, Mich. Democrat.
		Son of Edward Marsh and Huldah Rude (Dunning) Marsh; married 1905 to Tella Dorothy Swem.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/marsh-marshal.html (707 words)

	George Perkins Marsh Conservation Fellowship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Environmental Law Center welcomes proposals which advance the cause of environmental stewardship as exemplified by the works of George Perkins Marsh and as reflected in the ELC's Mission Statement.
		Research Fellows are expected to prepare a paper of publishable quality for presentation to the VLS community before the conclusion of the spring semester.
		Marsh Fellows work with the Director of the Environmental Law Center and/or a Fellowship Mentor to define the scope and substance of the specific proposal.
	www.vermontlaw.edu /ELC/index.cfm?doc_id=143 (345 words)

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