History
Conservation Officers can trace their history back to the middle ages, see gamekeeper. Their modern history is linked to that of the conservation movement, and has varied greatly between different regions of the world. The history of conservation officers in New York is a good example of the general progress from gamekeeper to conservation officer.
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“Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“... that there is no other way,
That the history of creation proceeds according to
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Do get done in this way, but never the things
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To see come into being.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)