Ecocriticism: Quotes Quiz
Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Ecocriticism? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Which author said "wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit"?
Edward Abbey
Rachel Carson
Lawrence Buell
Herman Melville
Q. Who stated that artistic expressions of nature tend to highlight only pretty things, relegating those expressions to "pretty ghettoes"?
Aldo Leopold
Lawrence Buell
Rachel Carson
Henry Thoreau
Q. Who walked into nature with the intent to "live life deliberately"?
Herman Melville
Rachel Carson
Richard Adams
Henry Thoreau
Q. Which author described human environments as living in a toxic world that is "not quite fatal"?
Rachel Carson
Aldo Leopold
Herman Melville
Richard Adams
Q. Who wrote the following: "So extravagant is Nature, with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert"?
Herman Melville
George Orwell
John Muir
Henry Thoreau