“Resources, waterways, and climatic zones loom so large in their writings that one can almost forget that people have something to do… — William Cronon Copy Share Image
“It is a country to breed mystical people, egocentric people, perhaps poetic people. But not humble ones…Puny you may feel there, and… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Environmental history... refer[s] to the past contact of man with his total habitat. . . . The environmental historian like the ecologist… — Roderick Nash Copy Share Image
“In the 1940s dams were synonymous with progress, and the rivers were to be conquered with the fervour of a pioneer wielding… — Tim Palmer Copy Share Image
There is little history in the study of nature, and there is little nature in the study of history. I want to… — Donald Worster Copy Share Image
Environmental history fit[s] into the framework of New Left history. [It is] history "from the bottom up," except that here the exploited… — Roderick Nash Copy Share Image
Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Within the various acts of the ecodrama should be included scenes in which men's and women's roles come to center stage and… — Carolyn Merchant Copy Share Image
“By what peculiar twist of perception, I wondered, had I managed to see the plowed fields and second-growth forests of southern Wisconsin—a… — William Cronon Copy Share Image
Evolving life must experience a vast range of possibilities, based on environmental histories so unpredictable that no realized route - the pathway… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We may be entering a new phase of history, a time when we begin to rediscover . . . the traditional teaching… — Donald Worster Copy Share Image
“Born of antimodern sentiment, the summer camp was ultimately a modern phenomenon, a "therapeutic space" as much dependent on the city, the… — Sharon Wall Copy Share Image
For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Environmental history was . . . born out of a moral purpose, with strong political commitments behind it, but also became, as… — Donald Worster Copy Share Image
“During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries a practical knowledge of the construction of small lakes was part of the equipment of most… — Elisabeth Beazley Copy Share Image
“The United States inherited a seemingly inexhaustible fortune in natural resources, yet it has responded to its environment with a dismaying mixture… — Elmo Richardson Copy Share Image
“Contemporary attitudes toward urban parks fall into three levels of sophistication. The first, the most naive assumption, is that parks are just… — Galen Cranz Copy Share Image
“Underlying many aspects of water development is a myth: the myth that we must have more.” — Tim Palmer Copy Share Image
“A dam tears at all the interconnected webs of river valley life.” — Patrick McCully Copy Share Image
“Why did we so consistently look at the West through the sights of a rifle?” — Dan Flores Copy Share Image
“Environmental history is, among other things, a lengthy account of human beings over and over imagining their way into a serious pickle.” — Elliott West Copy Share Image
“We stood by and allowed what happened to the Great Plains a century ago, the destruction of one of the ecological wonders… — Dan Flores Copy Share Image
Environmental historians . . . insist that we have got to go . . . down to the earth itself as an… — Donald Worster Copy Share Image
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![“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] the biota and the land itself.” quote by Roderick Nash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c3e/roderick-nash-57007_bottom_environmental-history-fit-s-into-the-fra_1475565.jpg)
