Deforestation in Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya"
1898 CE • Russia
“Russian forests are crashing down under the axe, billions of trees are perishing, the habitats of wild animals and birds are being laid to waste, rivers are getting shallower and drying up, wonderful landscapes are disappearing never to return, and all because man is too lazy to have the sense to extract fuel from the earth."
- Dr. Mikhail Lvovich Astrov in Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya, 1898
in Paul R. Josephson, An environmental history of Russia (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press), 39.
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