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Rain is a blessing when it falls gently on parched fields, turning the earth green, causing the birds to sing.

Donald Worster

Do what we will, the Colorado will one day find an unimpeded way to the sea.

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In recent years it has become impossible to talk about man's relation to nature without referring to "ecology"... such leading scientists in this area as Rachel Carson, Barry Commoner, Eugene Odum, Paul Ehrlich and others, have become our new delphic voices... so influential has their branch of science become that our time might well be called the "Age of Ecology".

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Human domination over nature is quite simply an illusion, a passing dream by a naive species. It is an illusion that has cost us much, ensnared us in our own designs, given us a few boasts to make about our courage and genius, but all the same it is an illusion.

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There is little history in the study of nature, and there is little nature in the study of history. I want to show how we can remedy that cultural lag by developing a new perspective on the historian's enterprise, one that will make us Darwinians at last.

Donald Worster

Donald Worster

Donald Worster

Born: 1941 (age 85)

Bio: Donald Worster is the Hall Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Kansas. He is one of the founders of, and leading figures in, the field of environmental history.

Known for:

Nature's economy (1977)
Dust Bowl (1979)
A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir (2008)
Rivers of Empire (1985)
The wealth of nature (1993)

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