Photograph of Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson

(1907 - 1964)

Timothy Morton

Octavia E. Butler

(1947 - 2006)

Photograph of English novelist Charles Dickens.

Charles Dickens

(1812 - 1870)

Engraving of William Shakespeare from the first folio edition.

William Shakespeare

(1564 - 1616)

J.G. Farrell

(1935 - 1979)

Al-Masudi

(c. 893 - c. 956)

John Burroughs

(1837 - 1921)

David Wallace-Wells

Black and white photograph of a young H.G. Wells with a mustache.

H.G. Wells

(1866 - 1946)

R. Buckminster Fuller

(1895 - 1983)

Tripadvisor

Barry Lopez

(1945 - 2020)

Amitav Ghosh

Kate Luckie

(1843 - 1937)

Eleanor Perényi

(1918 - 2009)

Eugène Huzar

(1820 - 1890)

Ovid

(43 BC - c. 17)

Historian and novelist Philipp Blom.

Philipp Blom

John McPhee

Portrait of French political philosopher Montesquieu.

Montesquieu

(1689 - 1755)

Yi Kyubo

(1168 - 1241)

Tété-Michel Kpomassie

Kyle Harper

Kyle Harper

Joseph Stalin

(c. 1878 - 1953)

French theologian John Calvin.

John Calvin

(1509 - 1564)

British author Aldous Huxley.

Aldous Huxley

(1894 - 1963)

Isidore of Seville

(c. 560 - 636)

American diplomat, scholar, and conservationist George Perkins Marsh.

George Perkins Marsh

(1801 - 1882)

Depiction of German abbess and mystic St. Hildegard.

Hildegard of Bingen

(1098 - 1179)

Portrait of Chinese fiction writer Pu Songling.

Pu Songling

(1640 - 1715)

Photograph of President Abraham Lincoln sitting in a chair.

Abraham Lincoln

(1809 - 1865)

American author and journalist Alan Weisman.

Alan Weisman

Robinson Jeffers

(1887 - 1962)

Ken Saro-Wiwa

(1941 - 1995)

Abby Jane Morrell

Abby Jane Morrell

(1809 - c. 1855)

Ibn Khaldun

(1332 - 1406)

Varlam Shalamov

(1907 - 1982)

Steve Milloy

Caroline Henderson

(1877 - 1966)

Katharine Viner

Ptolemy

(c. 100 - c. 170)

Fernand Braudel

(1902 - 1985)

Watsuji Tetsuro

(1889 - 1960)

Kalidasa

(c. 600 - c. 650)

Russell Means

(1939 - 2012)

Enheduanna

(c. 2285 BC - 2250 BC)

John Evelyn

(1620 - 1706)

Italian artist, engineer, and scientist Leonardo da Vinci.

Leonardo da Vinci

(1452 - 1519)

Photograph of Greta Thunberg by Anders Hellberg (CC BY 4.0)

Greta Thunberg

Photograph of Astra Taylor by Isabella De Maddalena

Astra Taylor

James Inhofe

Thomas Meaney

Welsh clergyman and historian Gerald of Wales.

Gerald of Wales

(c. 1146 - c. 1223)

Bruno Latour

(1947 - 2022)

Engraving of a bust of Lucretius.

Lucretius

(c. 95 BC - c. 50 BC)

William Stanley Jevons

(1835 - 1882)

Bessie Head

(1937 - 1986)

Lewis Lapham at his desk

Lewis H. Lapham

(1935 - 2024)

Photograph of German-English novelist W.G. Sebald.

W.G. Sebald

(1944 - 2001)

Black and white photograph of a young Mark Twain with dark hair.

Mark Twain

(1835 - 1910)

John Arbuthnot

(1667 - 1735)

Illustration of a man in fancy dress

Cassiodorus

(c. 490 - c. 585)

Masanobu Fukuoka

(1913 - 2008)

Charles Fort

(1874 - 1932)

Susan Fenimore Cooper

Susan Fenimore Cooper

(1813 - 1894)

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Don Marquis

(1878 - 1937)

Saint Agobard

(c. 770 - 840)

Loren Eiseley

(1907 - 1977)

Carl Sagan

(1934 - 1996)

Photo of stone Aristotle statue face

Aristotle

(384 BC - 322 BC)

Depiction of Greek philosopher Plato.

Plato

(c. 427 BC - c. 347 BC)

Svante Arrhenius

(1859 - 1927)

Gabriel García Márquez

(1927 - 2014)

Black and white photograph of historian and man of letters Henry Adams.

Henry Adams

(1838 - 1918)

Emperor Wen

(203 BC - 157 BC)

Seated man with a large white beard wearing a dark suit

Karl Marx

(1818 - 1883)

Portrait of third president of the United States Thomas Jefferson.

Thomas Jefferson

(1743 - 1826)

He Zhu

(c. 1066 - c. 1100)

Yuval Noah Harari

Tsitsi Dangarembga