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“Environmental history is, among other things, a lengthy account of human beings over and over imagining their way into a serious pickle.”

— Elliott West

Environmental history was . . . born out of a moral purpose, with strong political commitments behind it, but also became, as it matured,…

— Donald Worster

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.

— Ellsworth Huntington

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

“History is biology's dumping ground”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“History is a record of human nature in action.”

— James Carlos Blake

“History is the archaeology of the present and future.”

— Patrick Mendis

History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern…

— Edward Hallett Carr

A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the…

— Matt Gonzalez

“History is not the study of origins; rather it is the analysis of all the mediations by which the past was turned into our…

— Herbert Butterfield

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

— David Hume

“History is a living entity. Not just because of its survivors, and the stories they have to tell, but because of its enduring power…

— Dan Fesperman