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| 5266642816 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | American author, poet, and philosopher who espoused transcendentalism, a philosophy that views nature as a direct manifestation of the divine, and who promoted a holistic view of of nature among the public | 0 | |
| 5266642817 | Walt Whitman | American poet who espoused transcendentalism | 1 | |
| 5266644821 | John Muir | Scottish immigrant to the United States who eventually settled in California and made the Yosemite Valley his wilderness home and is associated with the preservation ethic. He argued that nature deserved protection for its own inherent values (ecocentric argument) and that nature played a big role in human happiness and fulfillment (anthropocentric argument) (Hetch Hetchy) | 2 | |
| 5266646593 | John Stuart Mill | British philosopher who believed that as resources become harder and harder to find and extract, economic growth will slow and eventually stabilize into a steady-state economy. Wrote: On Liberty, Utilitarianism, and The Subjection of Women | 3 | |
| 5266648917 | Henry David Thoreau | American transcendentalist author, poet, and philosopher. His book "Walden" recording hos observations thoughts while he lived at Walden Pond away from the bustle of the urban city, remains a classic of literature | 4 | |
| 5266648918 | Rachel Carson | an American marine biologist and conservationalist who wanted to protect the world from pollution, particularly pesticides which were hazardous (DDT) | 5 | |
| 5266650916 | Aldo Leopold | Author whose book "The Land Ethic" argued that humans should view themselves and the land itself as members of the same community and that humans are obligated to treat the land ethically | 6 | |
| 5267658708 | Gifford Pinchot | the first professionally trained American forester. He helped establish the US Forest Service. Today, he is the person most closely associated with the conservation ethic | 7 | |
| 5270662056 | Adam Smith | Scottish philosopher known today as the father of classical economics. He believed that when people are free to pursue their own economic self-interest in a competitive marketplace, the marketplace will behave as if guided by an invisible hand that ensures that their actions will benefit society as a whole | 8 | |
| 5270694923 | Thomas Malthus | British economist who maintained that increasing human population would eventually deplete the available food supply until starvation, war, or disease arose and reduced the population | 9 | |
| 5357467430 | Charles Darwin | English naturalist who proposed the concept of natural selection as a mechanism for evolution and as a way to explain the great variety of living things | 10 | |
| 5357467431 | Alfred Russell Wallace | English naturalist who proposed, independently from Charles Darwin, the concept of natural selection as a mechanism for evolution and as a way to explain the great variety of living things | 11 |
