“Environmental history... refer[s] to the past contact of man with his total habitat. . . . The environmental historian like the ecologist [s]hould think in terms of wholes, of communities, of interrelationships, and of balances.” ThinkingMenPastTermCommunityBalanceEnvironmentalContactHistorianHabitatEnvironmental History Author:Roderick Nash
“Environmental history fit[s] into the framework of New Left history. [It is] history "from the bottom up," except that here the exploited element [is] the biota and the land itself.” LeftLandFitElementsEnvironmentalBottomFrameworkEnvironmental History Author:Roderick Nash