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Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.

George Perkins Marsh (1864). “Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action”, p.35, New York : C. Scribner
Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.