Conservationist

🇺🇸Theodore Roosevelt

Politics

1858–1919

"We propose to make the process of constitutional amendment far easier, speedier, and simpler than at present."

John Muir

Philosophy

environmentalism

1838–1914

"To the sane and free it will hardly seem necessary to cross the continent in search of wild beauty, however easy the way, for they find it in abundance wherever they chance to be."

🇬🇧Beatrix Potter

Literature

1866–1943

"I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense..."

🇺🇸Rachel Carson

Literature

1907–1964

"RachelCarson.org The life and legacy of Rachel Carson"

🇺🇸John Muir (indologist)

Philosophy

environmentalism

1838–1914

"“Only that man... who is deluded, who is desirous of acquiring profits, who has neither deliberated upon his own religion, nor looked at the defects in Christianity, would become a Christian."

🇺🇸Louis Bromfield

Literature

Lost Generation

1896–1956

"She had turned her back upon them all and no awful fate had overtaken her; instead, she had taken a firm hold upon life and made of it a fine, even glittering, success; and this is a thing which is not easily forgiven."

🇩🇪Carola Rackete

Science

b. 1988

"It's our *white* responsibility to make sure people who speak out about racism are safe at all times. This means ending structural racism in our societies, authorities and media."

🇬🇧Gerald Durrell

Science

"I said I liked being half-educated; you were so much more surprised at everything when you were ignorant."

🇰🇪Richard Leakey

Politics

humanism

1944–2022

"I'm known for speaking my mind, a trait I probably inherited from my parents, Louis and Mary Leakey—neither of whom was renowned for tact."