Random quote
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788) wrote about 250 years
ago:
Nature’s productive capacity is so great that the quantity of this vegetal
humus would continue to augment everywhere, if we didn’t despoil and impoverish
the earth by our planned exploitations of it, which are always immoderate.
1 comment:
Sounds like le comte was an early conservationist, meaning to me he paid keen attention to issues that escaped the attention of others in his time. If I had never read the quote you presented, I would not have thought anyone concerned themselves with such things during his time. Fascinating!
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