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The land was then covered with morasses and forests, which spread to a boundless extent, whenever man has ceased to exercise his dominion over the earth.

Edward Gibbon
Exercise, Men, Land
Edward Gibbon (1828). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.331
The land was then covered with morasses and forests, which spread to a boundless extent, whenever man has ceased to exercise his dominion over the earth.