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Environment, Agriculture & Food

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Rachel Carson 1907–1964Environment, Agriculture & FoodMarine biologist whose book Silent Spring launched the modern environmental movement.Henry David Thoreau 1817–1862Environment, Agriculture & FoodWriter and philosopher whose works on nature, individual conscience, and civil disobedience influenced environmentalism and political protest.George Washington Carver 1864–1943Environment, Agriculture & FoodAgricultural scientist whose research on crop rotation and alternative crops transformed Southern farming.John Muir 1838–1914Environment, Agriculture & FoodNaturalist and organizer whose advocacy helped create national parks and the modern wilderness movement.John James Audubon 1785–1851Environment, Agriculture & FoodNaturalist and illustrator whose Birds of America shaped American ornithology and the society bearing his name.Julia Child 1912–2004Environment, Agriculture & FoodCookbook author and television host who transformed American home cooking and popular attitudes toward food.Aldo Leopold 1887–1948Environment, Agriculture & FoodEcologist whose “land ethic” became foundational to modern environmental thought.Norman Borlaug 1914–2009Environment, Agriculture & FoodAgronomist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate whose Green Revolution wheat varieties saved billions from famine.Temple Grandin b. 1947Environment, Agriculture & FoodAnimal scientist whose livestock handling designs reshaped American slaughterhouse welfare standards.Gifford Pinchot 1865–1946Environment, Agriculture & FoodFirst chief of the U.S. Forest Service and leading advocate of scientific conservation and managed public lands.Marjory Stoneman Douglas 1890–1998Environment, Agriculture & FoodWriter and activist whose advocacy was central to preserving the Florida Everglades as a national ecological treasure.James Beard 1903–1985Environment, Agriculture & FoodCookbook author and teacher whose advocacy helped define a distinct modern American culinary tradition.Alice Waters b. 1944Environment, Agriculture & FoodChef and activist who popularized farm-to-table dining, seasonal ingredients, and food education in the United States.Harvey Washington Wiley 1844–1930Environment, Agriculture & FoodChemist whose adulteration studies produced the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the agency that became the FDA.Luther Burbank 1849–1926Environment, Agriculture & FoodPlant breeder whose hundreds of new varieties changed American horticulture, agriculture, and popular attitudes toward scientific breeding.Gaylord Nelson 1916–2005Environment, Agriculture & FoodSenator and founder of Earth Day who helped make environmental protection a mass political movement.Wendell Berry b. 1934Environment, Agriculture & FoodWriter and farmer whose work connected environmental stewardship, local agriculture, community, and opposition to industrial excess.DBDavid Brower 1912–2000Environment, Agriculture & FoodConservation leader who transformed the Sierra Club and helped build the modern American environmental movement.