Citations:environmentalist

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English citations of environmentalist

person who views environment as the primary factor in the development of an individual or group[edit]

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1939
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  • 1926, Clark Wissler, The Relation of Nature to Man in Aboriginal America, published 1971, pages 211–212:
    As we remarked once before, there are two extreme views with respect to life, one attributing everything to the environment, the other to inherent abilities. If, for example, an unusual number of distinguished men are born and reared in the same locality, the environmentalists assert that the causes for their appearance were entirely external and that had their parents changed habitats with those residing elsewhere the result would have been the same, except that the family names of these eminent men would have been different.
  • 1939, Alfred L. Kroeber, Cultural and Natural Areas of Native North America, published 1963, page 7:
    But he did conceive of culture as more than an incidental epiphenomenon, and was far from being the crass environmentalist which Semple's misrepresentatively selective adaptation makes him out to be.

advocate for the protection of the biosphere from misuse from human activity[edit]

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