Animals & Ecology
Philosophy & Human Nature
Environmental History
Cultural Commentary
Philosophy & Ethics
100

Which author drew attention to the danger for birds through chemicals and pesticides?

Rachel Carson

100

Who wrote "All good things are wild and free"?

Henry David Thoreau

100

Which author understands there is an art to see things?

John Burroughs

100

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

100

Who wrote poetic prose that exalts the beauty of the wild suggesting that true preservation lies in its untamed essence?

Henry David Thoreau
200

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

200

Who wrote the piece that refers to the earth as a spaceship?

R. Buckminster Fuller

200

Who was recognized by Ralph Waldo Emerson as America's first original poet?

Walt Whitman

200

What author was considered "The founding father of underground comics"?

Robert (R.) Crumb

200

Which author used many aesthetic and rhetorical devices in their famous speech regarding farmers rights?

César Chávez

300

Which author criticizes the idea of anthropocentrism through a story about an alligator in the south?

John Muir

300

Which author writes about Pan’s evolution as a metaphor for human relationship to nature?

D.H. Lawrence

300

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

300

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

300

Who talks about the soul of man guiding his work?

William Morris

400

Who wrote about buzzards observing that populations grow when food is plentiful: "the more carrion, the more buzzards"?

Mary Austin

400

Who wrote the piece that uses game theory to make a case against universal rights?

Garrett Hardin

400

Which author used the aesthetic techniques of figurative language, metaphor, and imagery in his piece Man and Nature?

George Perkins Marsh

400

Which singer-songwriter has an album called Ladies of the Canyon?

Joni Mitchell

400

Who emphasized the importance of good weather and a good social environment for life?

Jonathan Bate

500

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

500

Which author(s) wrote about human nature through the lens of Homeric narratives?

Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer

500

Who wrote a narrative about early explorations into the Brooks Range?

Robert Marshall

500

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

500

Who wrote the line "A fool always wants to shorten space and time: a wise man wants to lengthen both"?

John Ruskin