Balance Quote by Roderick Nash

The ecologist has a much more comprehensive and holistic view of the world. We're looking at the natural environment as well as the human…

— Ken Yeang

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

“No one is an outside observer of nature, We're defined by our environment and our interaction with that environment -- by our ecology. And…

— Beau Lotto

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

— Elliott West

Early ecologists soon realised that, since humans are organisms, ecology should include the study of the relationship between humans and the rest of the…

— Richard Heinberg

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

— Ellsworth Huntington

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

— Donald Worster

“No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever called its feeling for its home place “biocentric”…

— Wendell Berry

A natural historian is somebody who looks at something in terms of its relationship to the rest of the natural world. You look at…

— Michael Pollan

The world of organisms, of animals and plants, is built up of individuals. I like to think, then, of natural history as the study…

— Marston Bates

The philosophy that I have worked under most of my life is that the serious study of natural history is an activity which has…

— Roger Tory Peterson

The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one…

— Claude Levi-Strauss