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# Wallace Pratt

(1885–1981)   Conservationist

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Wallace Pratt was a conservationist, best known for *Oil in the earth*.

## Quick Facts About Wallace Pratt

Born March 15, 1885

Died December 25, 1981

Profession Conservationist

Notable works Oil in the earth

## About Wallace Pratt

Wallace Everette Pratt (1885–1981) was a pioneer American petroleum geologist. When he started his position at Standard Oil in 1937, the company named one of their tankers after him, the SS Wallace E Pratt. He is also notable for helping establish Guadalupe Mountains National Park of West Texas and Eddy County, New Mexico through his donation of McKittrick Canyon in Salt Flat, Texas. He is also notable for his marriage to suffragist Iris Calderhead. In Guadalupe Mountains National Park, they had constructed the Wallace E. Pratt House, the Ship on the Desert, which resembled an oil tanker.

##  Quotes by Wallace Pratt

> [Gold is where you find it, according to an old adage, but judging from the record of our experience, oil must be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-pratt/gold-is-where-you-find-it-according-to-an-old-adage-but-judging-from/)

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> [Where oil is first found is in the minds of men](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-pratt/where-oil-is-first-found-is-in-the-minds-of-men/)

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> [If I as a geologist were called upon to explain briefly our modern ideas of the origin of the earth and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-pratt/if-i-as-a-geologist-were-called-upon-to-explain-briefly-our-modern/)

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