When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him Vandal. When he wantonly destroys one of the works of God we call him Sportsman.

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(Colin Fletcher, The Man Who Walked Through Time (1972), p. 230 ): When a man despoils a work of art we call him a vandal, when he despoils a work of nature we call him a developer.

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