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Élisée Reclus Quotes

d. 1905 France

Jacques Élisée Reclus (15 March 1830 – 4 July 1905) was a French geographer, writer and anarchist. He produced his 19-volume masterwork, La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et les hommes ("Universal Geography"), over a period of nearly 20 years (1875–1894).

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Humanity is nature becoming conscious of herself.

Ethnography and ethnology...run up into anthropology as anthropology does into zoology, and zoology into biology.

Let the schoolboy fresh from his prison, skeptical and world-weary, learn to follow the edges of brooks; let him contemplate the eddies, part the leaves, or lift the stones to see the water spring forth from small sources, and soon he will have become once again simple of heart, joyful, and open.

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