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It is a great misfortune to be too rich: for it makes many men negligent as to the improvement of their estates.
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― Present State of Husbandry in Scotland: Extracted from Reports made to the Commissioners of the Annexed Estates
― Present State of Husbandry in Scotland: Extracted from Reports made to the Commissioners of the Annexed Estates
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Our distant ancestors had the capacity to make profound changes to the environment, to shape it such that it would better deliver those things upon which their subsistence depended. They could overexploit an exhaust, and persecute perceived competitors to extinction, but they could also recognise depletion and take steps to regulate overuse and bad practice. Above all, however, they developed a fundamental social resilience in the face of adversity and crisis, and it is from that characteristic
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― A Land Won from Waste: Scotland AD 400 - 1400
― A Land Won from Waste: Scotland AD 400 - 1400