Animals & Ecology
Which author drew attention to the danger for birds through chemicals and pesticides?
Rachel Carson
Who wrote "All good things are wild and free"?
Henry David Thoreau
Which author understands there is an art to see things?
John Burroughs
Which author highlights the advocates for social equality, accessibility to the land, and a sense of shared ownership of America—emphasized through lyrics?
Woody Guthrie
Who wrote poetic prose that exalts the beauty of the wild suggesting that true preservation lies in its untamed essence?
Who writes about a childhood spent in awe of birds and a special sanctuary in Utah with burrowing owls and many other migratory birds?
Terry Tempest Williams
Who wrote the piece that refers to the earth as a spaceship?
R. Buckminster Fuller
Who was recognized by Ralph Waldo Emerson as America's first original poet?
Walt Whitman
What author was considered "The founding father of underground comics"?
Robert (R.) Crumb
Which author used many aesthetic and rhetorical devices in their famous speech regarding farmers rights?
César Chávez
Which author criticizes the idea of anthropocentrism through a story about an alligator in the south?
John Muir
Which author writes about Pan’s evolution as a metaphor for human relationship to nature?
D.H. Lawrence
Who initiated the discussion about the need for a formal wilderness system and died four months before the final passage of the wilderness bill?
Howard Zahniser
Who’s wrote the lyrics “Ah, things ain't what they used to be, Oil wasted on the ocean and upon our seas” that is speaking to the disconnect between society and the natural world?"
Marvin Gaye
Who talks about the soul of man guiding his work?
William Morris
Who wrote about buzzards observing that populations grow when food is plentiful: "the more carrion, the more buzzards"?
Mary Austin
Who wrote the piece that uses game theory to make a case against universal rights?
Garrett Hardin
Which author used the aesthetic techniques of figurative language, metaphor, and imagery in his piece Man and Nature?
George Perkins Marsh
Which singer-songwriter has an album called Ladies of the Canyon?
Joni Mitchell
Who emphasized the importance of good weather and a good social environment for life?
Jonathan Bate
Who spoke of different forms of animal shelters starting with bees then birds then the Earth "a nest on its humble tilt in the maze of the universe holding us"?
Linda Hogan
Which author(s) wrote about human nature through the lens of Homeric narratives?
Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer
Who wrote a narrative about early explorations into the Brooks Range?
Robert Marshall
Who wrote the lines “I heard the mighty tree its death-chant chanting. The chopper heard not, the camp shanties echoed not, The quick-ear’d teamsters and chains and jack-screw men heard not…”?
Walt Whitman
Who wrote the line "A fool always wants to shorten space and time: a wise man wants to lengthen both"?
John Ruskin