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William Cronon

(1954) Geographer

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William Cronon is a geographer, best known for Nature's metropolis.

Quick Facts About William Cronon

Born: September 11, 1954
Profession: Geographer
Notable works: Nature's metropolis

About William Cronon

William Cronon is an American environmental historian and the Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was president of the American Historical Association (AHA) in 2012.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by William Cronon

“Killing was a relatively simple matter--a blow to the head, a knife to the throat--complicated only by how much one cared about…

Death

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“Resources, waterways, and climatic zones loom so large in their writings that one can almost forget that people have something to do…

Agency

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“By what peculiar twist of perception, I wondered, had I managed to see the plowed fields and second-growth forests of southern Wisconsin—a…

Environmental history

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“The trouble with wilderness is that it quietly expresses and reproduces the very values its devotees seek to reject. The flight from…

False hope

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We need to discover a common middle ground in which all of these things, from the city to the wilderness, can somehow…

Cities

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At a time when threats to the physical environment have never been greater, it may be tempting to believe that people need…

Abstract

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By seeing the otherness in that which is most unfamiliar, we can learn to see it too in that which at first…

Can do

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As we gaze into the mirror it holds up for us, we too easily imagine that what we behold is Nature when…

Desire

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We go to sanctuaries to remember the things we hold most dear, the things we cherish and love. And then-the great challenge-we…

And love

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