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93 Cards in this Set
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For whom is the genus of the Franklinia Altamaha named?
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Benjamin Franklin
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Who is the founder of the Hudson River School of Painting?
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Thomas Cole
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Who is the person next to him in the painting, Kindred Spirits?
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William Cullen Bryant
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A person of poems and came up with idea for Central Park in NYC
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William Cullen Bryant
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Who painted Kindred Spirits as a eulogy for Thomas Cole?
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Asher B. Durand
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What is present in many paintings from Hudson River School of Painting that makes this organization impossible in Europe?
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Wilderness
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Who painted The Rocky Mountains?
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Albert Bierstadt
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What painting was auctioned at the New York Metropolitan Fair, in April 1864, as a fund raiser for the American Sanitary Commission?
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The Rocky Mountains
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What organization did the American Sanitary Commission become?
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The American Red Cross
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Who was the Secretary of the American Sanitary Commission at the time of the auction?
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Fredrick Law Ohlmstead
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Who painted The Course of Empire?
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Thomas Cole
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How many paintings comprise The Course of Empire?
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Five
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This painting consists of: rough terrain, leaves, rocks, ledges- Wilderness coming to a foreground.
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The Savage State 1 of 5
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This painting consists of: Some pasture land with a temple being built in the background-man is beginning to mold the landscape.
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The Pastoral or Arcadian State 2 of 5
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This painting consists of: Lots of man-made architecture and covered with humans
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The Consummation of Empire 3 of 5
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This painting consists of: of Fire and destruction of temples and soldiers chasing helpless women
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Destruction 4 of 5
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This painting consists of: the ruins of man-made architecture, which is starting to be covered by ivy, grass, and trees as nature starts to come back- "Nature bats last"
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Desolation 5 of 5
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Where did Thomas Cole get his artistic education?
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Europe, but he came back and painted the wild American Landscape
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John Muir and Gifford Pichot, while working to create the American Forestry Commission(predecessor to the US Forest Service) slept at the edge of the Grand Canyon, but something happened to split them and put them at ends. What was the issue?
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The Hetch Hetchy Valley Dam
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Who wanted to protect the Hech Hetch Valley?
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John Muir
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Who wanted to dam the Tolumne River?
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Gifford Pinchot
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Why did people want to dam the Tolumne River?
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San Francisco had a fire due to an earthquake because of the San Andreas Fault
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What organization did Muir start to fight the attempts to dam the Tolumne River?
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The Sierra Club
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Who wrote/painted The Quadrupeds of North America?
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John James Audobon and John Bachman
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Where did Bachman and Audobon meet?
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South Carolina
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In a painting of Bachman's Warbler, what did Bachman's future wife paint as the background?
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Franklinia Altamaha
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What did it mean when the Tolumne River was damed?
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"Nothing was sacred," not even in National parks
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What flower, and what bird have followed a similar trend of "commonness?"
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Franklinia Altamaha and Bachman's Warbler
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What did Aldo Leopold establish in New Mexico?
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The first primitive area
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What was the first Primitive area called, and where was it?
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The Gila Primitive Area, in part of the Gila National Forest
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How long did it take to establish the Gila Primitive area?
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2 years after getting lost
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How was the Gila Primitive area established?
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The Secretary of Agriculture "signed off" on it
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Why was the means of establishing The Gila Primitive area insufficient?
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Any Secretary of Agriculture could sign the Primitive area away
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How many years were spent lobbying to pass the Wilderness Act of 1964?
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20 years
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What did the Wilderness Act of 1964 establish?
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A legal definition of "Wilderness" and about 9 million acres of it
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What was the compromise made in the Wilderness act of 1964?
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Wilderness areas had to come from our most valuable landscapes- National Forests.
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How many years did it take to get Yellowstone National Park created?
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2 years
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What did Thomas Jefferson buy in Virginia?
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The Natural Bridge of Virginia ("One of the gateways to the west")
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What did Thomas Jefferson buy in 1803 for how much?
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Louisiana Purchase 15 $ million
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Upon what did Jefferson insist after buying the Land?
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Surveying the land
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What system did Jefferson want to use to survey the land?
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Township and Range Survey System
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How big is a Township?
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6 miles by 6 miles- 36 square miles
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How many of what sections of a Township did Jefferson want designated for schools?
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1 of the 4 center sections and would be number 16
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How many sections located where are supposed to designated for government?
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4 sections- each 1 mile in from the corners
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What numbers were the sections designated for government regardless of where you started counting?
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8, 11, 26, 29
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In Louisiana what two survey types do we use?
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Long-Lots and Township and Range
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How is the long-lots system divided?
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It is supposed to be divided into areas of proportional area numbered.
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In Louisiana what two survey types do we use?
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Long-Lots and Township and Range
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How is the long-lots system divided?
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It is supposed to be divided into areas of proportional area numbered.
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Who asked: "How can you buy the sky? How can you own the rain and the wind?"
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Chief Seattle
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Who said: "This we know all things are connected like the blood that connects us... Whatever we do to the web we do to ourselves"?
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Chief Seattle
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Who said: "We love this earth as a mother loves its newborn's heartbeat"?
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Chief Seattle
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In what department of the federal government is the US Forest Service?
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Department of Agriculture
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In what department of the federal government is the Department of Fish and Wildlife?
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Department of the Interior
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In what department of the federal government is the National Park Service?
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Department of the Interior
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Why is the National Park Service in the department of the Interior?
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There was no state of Wyoming when it was created, but it had to go in some department
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Was "Author of the Declaration of American Independence" on Thomas Jefferson's Tomb?
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Yes
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Was "Father of the University of Virginia" on Thomas Jefferson's Tomb?"
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Yes
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Was the fact that he was president on Thomas Jefferson's Tombstone?
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No
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Was the fact that he purchased the Louisiana Territory on Thomas Jefferson's Tombstone?
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No
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What was the name of the first best-selling book from America?
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Travels
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Who wrote Travels?
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William Bartarum
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What eight states are included in William Bartarum's "Travels?"
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North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee
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Are National Battlefields under the authority of the National Park Service?
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Yes
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What are the values of wilderness?
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Bench Marks, Recreation, Places for endangered species
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What does it mean for wilderness to be a benchmark?
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To know from what we came and whether or not our actions are good or bad
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Who climbed a 100 foot Douglas Fir just to experience a windstorm?
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John Muir
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Where was John Muir's first home?
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Portage, Wisconsin
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Where was John Muir born?
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Dunbar, Scotland
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Where did John Muir goto college?
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University of Wisconsin
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Where did Henry David Thoreau goto college?
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Frylying's Alma Mater, Harvard
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Who said "From the eastern boundary of the vast golden flower bed rose the mighty sierra... Seemed not colored with light but wholly composed of it like the walls of some celestial city"?
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John Muir
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What were the dimensions of Thoreau's Cabin?
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10 feet by 15 feet
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Who said wilderness is the preservation of the world?
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John Muir
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Who took a photograph of the Mountain of the Holy Cross?
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William Henry Jackson
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Who helped found found the first museum collection of photography in 1946?
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Ansel Adams
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Who came up with the zone system of photography?
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Ansel Adams
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What specific color did Ansel Adams expose in his photographs?
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Mid-Gray
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How many keys are there on a piano?
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88- Ansel Adams played piano before photography- and wanted to get all the shades out of his photos
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How much did Thomas Jefferson pay for the Louisiana Purchases?
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$15 Million
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Who is given credit as the first to propose the idea of national parks?
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George Catlin
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In what activities did George Catlin partake?
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Writing and Painting
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Who created a gallery of Indian paintings, artifacts, and things like that?
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George Catlin
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Why are the lands of the Atchafalya Basin rising?
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Sedement Deposition
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Who was a forester, author, academic, and an establisher of environmental ethics- putting ethics and ecology together?
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Aldo Leopold
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Who was a forester, socialist, and counter?
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Bob Marshall
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How was Bob Marshall a socialist?
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He wanted all forest areas to be public
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How was Bob Marshall a counter?
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He counted the unmentionable words spoken while foresters ate their noon meals
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Who was a lobbyist with a custom coat to sneak documents in and out of Wilderness Committee meetings?
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Howard Zanhiser
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Who might be called the poster-child for transcendentalism?
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Henry David Thoreau
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Who wrote about "The individual rebel against society"?
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Henry David Thoreau
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Who wrote about civil disobedience, contributing to Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr.?
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Henry David Thoreau
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What to mental gifts did Henry David Thoreau give to America?
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All are created equal and Nature is important
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