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Quotation from The Art of War by Niccolo Machiavelli
“Then for to avoide infirmitie, thei did flie from places Fennie, or subjecte to hurtfull windes: whiche thei knewe not so well, by the qualitie of the situacion, as by the face of the inhabitours: for when thei sawe theim evill coloured, or swollen, or full of other infeccion, thei would not lodge there”
The Art of War, Book VI, trans. Peter Whitehorne (1560)
Roman generals judged the healthiness of a camp site by the appearance of local people, an early form of environmental health assessment.
Citation: "Then for to avoide infirmitie, thei did flie from places Fennie, or subjecte to hurtfull windes: whiche thei knewe not so well, by the qualitie of the situacion, as by the face of the inhabitours: for when thei sawe theim evill coloured, or swollen, or full of other infeccion, thei would not lodge there" — Niccolo Machiavelli, The Art of War, Book VI, trans. Peter Whitehorne (1560). (id the-art-of-war-machiavelli-q6)
Portrait: Portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli, Santi di Tito, Public domain.
