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> [ Environmental history... refer\[s\] to the past contact of man with his total habitat. . . . The environmental historian like the ecologist \[s\]hould think in terms of wholes, of communities, of interrelationships, and of balances. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roderick-nash/environmental-history-refer-s-to-the-past-contact-of-man-with-his/)

[Roderick Nash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roderick-nash/)

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## More by Roderick Nash

> [Wilderness is not so much a place, but a feeling about one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roderick-nash/wilderness-is-not-so-much-a-place-but-a-feeling-about-one/)

[Roderick Nash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roderick-nash/)

> [ Environmental history... refer\[s\] to the past contact of man with his total habitat. . . . The environmental historian like the ecologist \[s\]hould think… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roderick-nash/environmental-history-refer-s-to-the-past-contact-of-man-with-his/)

[Roderick Nash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roderick-nash/)

> [It is really not the wilderness that needs management (it has been doing quite well, after all, for a couple of billion years), but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roderick-nash/it-is-really-not-the-wilderness-that-needs-management-it-has-been/)

[Roderick Nash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roderick-nash/)

> [ Environmental history fit\[s\] into the framework of New Left history. \[It is\] history "from the bottom up," except that here the exploited element \[is\]… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roderick-nash/environmental-history-fit-s-into-the-framework-of-new-left-history-it/)

[Roderick Nash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roderick-nash/)

> [Take away wilderness and you take away the opportunity to be American.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roderick-nash/take-away-wilderness-and-you-take-away-the-opportunity-to-be-american/)

[Roderick Nash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roderick-nash/)

> [Wilderness appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works. It not only offered an escape from society but also was an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roderick-nash/wilderness-appealed-to-those-bored-or-disgusted-with-man-and-his/)

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