Environmental history Quote by Dan Flores Download Open image ““Why did we so consistently look at the West through the sights of a rifle?”” — Dan Flores ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Environmental history Western-history
“...the guns and the eyes of the guard were facing inwards, not outwards, an observation that made little sense and was disregarded at the… — Patricia Hamill Copy Share Image
“The sight of so many guns, mostly deer rifles and duck guns but with a smattering of black rifles and riot shotguns, made him… — Larry Correia Copy Share Image
“We used these rifles in field exercises to simulate a lot of deadlier and nastier aimed weapons, too.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
“America is the home of rifle shooting, and there is no doubt that Americans are…more "rifle-minded" than the British.” — John "Pondoro" Taylor Copy Share Image
“As they passed into the woods, he took one last look behind, then checked the two pistols in his belt, and hurried down the… — Tim Robinson Copy Share Image
“It's next to impossible to slip off the radar in today's world. Sometimes the world comes looking for you all guns blazing, and it's… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“Hundreds, maybe thousands, naked and hairless (and what the fuck was up with that anyway?) were distracted by the crack of my gun and… — Bobby Adair Copy Share Image
“No sooner had the thought occurred to him than he found himself staring down the barrel of a single-shot caplock pistol, and halted in… — Katie Lynn Johnson 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 of the… — Dan Flores 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 factory, and… — Sharon Wall Copy Share Image
Environmental history was . . . born out of a moral purpose, with strong political commitments behind it, but also became, as it matured,… — Donald Worster 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 vulnerable, but… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Resources, waterways, and climatic zones loom so large in their writings that one can almost forget that people have something to do with the… — William Cronon Copy Share Image
Environmental history... refer[s] to the past contact of man with his total habitat. . . . The environmental historian like the ecologist [s]hould think… — 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 an axe.” — Tim Palmer 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 landscape of… — William Cronon Copy Share Image
We may be entering a new phase of history, a time when we begin to rediscover . . . the traditional teaching that power… — 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 element [is]… — Roderick Nash 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 countrymen. Many… — Elisabeth Beazley 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 plots of… — Galen Cranz Copy Share Image
Evolving life must experience a vast range of possibilities, based on environmental histories so unpredictable that no realized route - the pathway to consciousness… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
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