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> [Environmental history was . . . born out of a moral purpose, with strong political commitments behind it, but also became, as it matured, a scholarly enterprise that had neither any simple, nor any single, moral or political agenda to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-worster/environmental-history-was-born-out-of-a-moral-purpose-with-strong/)

[Donald Worster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-worster/)

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## Other authors on Moral Purpose

## More by Donald Worster

> [Human domination over nature is quite simply an illusion, a passing dream by a naive species. It is an illusion that has cost us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-worster/human-domination-over-nature-is-quite-simply-an-illusion-a-passing/)

[Donald Worster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-worster/)

> [Environmental history was . . . born out of a moral purpose, with strong political commitments behind it, but also became, as it matured,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-worster/environmental-history-was-born-out-of-a-moral-purpose-with-strong/)

[Donald Worster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-worster/)

> [Rain is a blessing when it falls gently on parched fields, turning the earth green, causing the birds to sing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-worster/rain-is-a-blessing-when-it-falls-gently-on-parched-fields-turning-the/)

[Donald Worster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-worster/)

> [We may be entering a new phase of history, a time when we begin to rediscover . . . the traditional teaching that power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-worster/we-may-be-entering-a-new-phase-of-history-a-time-when-we-begin-to/)

[Donald Worster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-worster/)

> [Do what we will, the Colorado will one day find an unimpeded way to the sea.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-worster/do-what-we-will-the-colorado-will-one-day-find-an-unimpeded-way-to/)

[Donald Worster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-worster/)

> [There is little history in the study of nature, and there is little nature in the study of history. I want to show how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-worster/there-is-little-history-in-the-study-of-nature-and-there-is-little/)

[Donald Worster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-worster/)

> [Environmental historians . . . insist that we have got to go . . . down to the earth itself as an agent and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-worster/environmental-historians-insist-that-we-have-got-to-go-down-to-the/)

[Donald Worster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-worster/)

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