Rachel Carson vs. Aldo Leopold
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Rachel Carson
1907 – 1964
Rachel Louise Carson was an American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist whose sea trilogy (1941–1955) and book Silent Spring (1962) are credited with advancing marine conservation and the global environmental movement.
"It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though cha…"
Aldo Leopold
1887 – 1948
Aldo Leopold was an American writer, philosopher, naturalist, scientist, ecologist, forester, professor, conservationist, and environmentalist. He taught at the University of Wisconsin and is best known for his book A Sand County Almanac (1949), which has been translated into fifteen languages and has sold more than two million copies.
"One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds."
Connections
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