Administration actions over the past four years stressed the importance of providing Federal support only for water resource projects that are economically and environmentally sound.
"State of the Union Addresses of Jimmy Carter"
Jimmy Carter
It is again impossible to doubt that there is truth in this view, for even if environmentally induced "modifications" be not transmissible, environmentally induced "variations" are; and even if the direct influence of the environment be less important than many enthusiastic supporters of this view-may we call them Buffonians-think, there remains the indirect influence which Darwinians in part rely on,-the eliminative process.
"Darwin and Modern Science"
A.C. Seward and Others
The pioneer's preoccupation with material matters in opening up new country is self-evident, but what is not so generally recognized is the fact that nineteenth-century Europe and the eastern United States are in many respects environmentally "newer" than remote backwoods settlements.
"The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy"
Theodore Lothrop Stoddard