| George Perkins Marsh - 1864 - 592 páginas
...natural philosopher, the descriptive poet, the painter, and the sculptor, as well as to the common observer, the. power most important to cultivate,...to acquire, is that of seeing what is before him. Sight is a faculty ; seeing, an art. The eye is a physical, but not a selfacting apparatus, and in... | |
| George Perkins Marsh - 1874 - 702 páginas
...formal instruction, those whom it may interest can, fortunately, have 110 pedagogue but themselves. To the natural philosopher, the descriptive poet,...to acquire, is that of seeing what is before him. Sight is a faculty ; seeing, an art. The eye is a physical but not a self-acting apparatus, and in... | |
| George Perkins Marsh - 1882 - 720 páginas
...formal instruction, those whom it may interest can, fortunately, have 110 pedagogue but themselves. To the natural philosopher, the descriptive poet,...to acquire, is that of seeing what is before him. Sight is a faculty ; seeing, an art. The eye is a physical but not a self-acting apparatus, and in... | |
| David Kay (F.R.G.S.) - 1888 - 378 páginas
...natural philosopher, the descriptive poet, the painter, and the sculptor, as well as to the common observer, the power most important to cultivate, and...to acquire, is that of seeing what is before him." — GP Marsh,. It must be taught to observe, to compare, to analyse, to look at things on all sides,... | |
| David Kay - 1888 - 388 páginas
...natural philosopher, the descriptive poet, the painter, and the sculptor, as well as to the common observer, the power most important to cultivate, and...to acquire, is that of seeing what is before him." — GP Marsh. It must be taught to observe, to compare, to analyse, to look at things on all sides,... | |
| David Kay - 1888 - 374 páginas
...natural philosopher, the descriptive poet, the painter, and the sculptor, as well as to the common observer, the power most important to cultivate, and at the same time hardest to acquire, it that of seeing what is before him." — GP Mwsk. It must be taught to observe, to compare, to analyse,... | |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1883 - 508 páginas
...could find the time or the will to produce a work like this, he will find his answer in the author's admirable disquisition, on pages 11-14 of this book,...acquired to a high degree, and had so well used it to till his memory with an infinite variety of useful facts tliat their expression, when digested in the... | |
| Karl V. Miller, R. Larry Marchinton - 1995 - 346 páginas
...WEEKS, JR. CHAPTER 12 Genetics To the natural philosopher . . . as well as to the common obsenvr, the most important to cultivate, and, at the same time,...to acquire, is that of seeing what is before him. — GEORGE PERKINS MARSH Man and Nature In this chapter, deer quality is defined primarily in terms... | |
| Andrew J. Weigert - 1997 - 230 páginas
...nature anew is a difficult though not impossible task. It was mightily needed in his time. He wrote: 1 the power most important to cultivate, and, at the...to acquire, is that of seeing what is before him. Sight is a faculty; seeing, an art. The eye is a physical, but not a self-acting apparatus, and in... | |
| United States. Federal Energy Administration - 1974 - 502 páginas
.... . as well as to the common observer." wrote George Perkins Marsh in his classic 'Man and Nature', "the power most important to cultivate, and. at the...to acquire, is that of seeing what is before him." The Whitehouse Nature Center is an institutional device that brings land and people together on intimate... | |
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