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Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

Lynn Townsend White, Jr. Books

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Lynn Townsend White, Jr. was an American historian and philosopher of history, recognized for his work on the environmental impact of human societies. His influential essay, 'The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis,' examines the relationship between human societies and the natural environment.

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“More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one.”

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“Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary.”

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“History is a means of access to ourselves.”

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“The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.”

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“We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.”

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“Both our present science and our present technology are so tinctured with orthodox Christian arrogance toward nature that no solution for our ecologic crisis can be expected from them alone. Since the roots of our trouble are so largely religious, the remedy must also be essentially religious, whether we call it that or not. We must rethink and refeel our nature and destiny.”

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Author:Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

“If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, you're the government.”

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“We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.”

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Author:Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

“[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.”

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Author:Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

“Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome.”

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Author:Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

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Born: April 29, 1907
Died: March 30, 1987
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