“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 promote. Its principal goal became one of deepening our understanding of how humans have been affected by their natural environment through time and, conversely, how they have affected that environment and with what results.”
![“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)
![“[The idea] of an environmental ethic runs contrary to our cultural tradition.” quote by John Livingston. from "One Cosmic Moment](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c1b/john-livingston-from-one-cosmi_philosophy_the-idea-of-an-environmental-ethic-runs_1583949.jpg)
