Robinson Jeffers

(1887 - 1962)

American author and journalist Alan Weisman.

Alan Weisman

Photograph of Astra Taylor by Isabella De Maddalena

Astra Taylor

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

Greta Thunberg

British author Aldous Huxley.

Aldous Huxley

(1894 - 1963)

Ken Saro-Wiwa

(1941 - 1995)

John Arbuthnot

(1667 - 1735)

Ibn Khaldun

(1332 - 1406)

Kate Luckie

(1843 - 1937)

Thomas Meaney

Barry Lopez

(1945 - 2020)

Robin Wall Kimmerer

American diplomat, scholar, and conservationist George Perkins Marsh.

George Perkins Marsh

(1801 - 1882)

Charles Fort

(1874 - 1932)

Gabriel García Márquez

(1927 - 2014)

Watsuji Tetsuro

(1889 - 1960)

Russell Means

(1939 - 2012)

Lewis Lapham at his desk

Lewis H. Lapham

(1935 - 2024)

Kalidasa

(c. 600 - c. 650)

Amitav Ghosh

Saint Agobard

(c. 770 - 840)

Bessie Head

(1937 - 1986)

Photograph of English novelist Charles Dickens.

Charles Dickens

(1812 - 1870)

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

Henry Adams

(1838 - 1918)

William Stanley Jevons

(1835 - 1882)

Abby Jane Morrell

Abby Jane Morrell

(1809 - c. 1855)

Depiction of German abbess and mystic St. Hildegard.

Hildegard of Bingen

(1098 - 1179)

Eugène Huzar

(1820 - 1890)

French theologian John Calvin.

John Calvin

(1509 - 1564)

Portrait of third president of the United States Thomas Jefferson.

Thomas Jefferson

(1743 - 1826)

Photo of stone Aristotle statue face

Aristotle

(384 BC - 322 BC)

Loren Eiseley

(1907 - 1977)

Steve Milloy

Caroline Henderson

(1877 - 1966)

Isidore of Seville

(c. 560 - 636)

Joseph Stalin

(c. 1878 - 1953)

Yi Kyubo

(1168 - 1241)

John Evelyn

(1620 - 1706)

Tété-Michel Kpomassie

Tripadvisor

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

W.G. Sebald

(1944 - 2001)

Yuval Noah Harari

Tsitsi Dangarembga

James Inhofe

Historian and novelist Philipp Blom.

Philipp Blom

Ovid

(43 BC - c. 17)

Varlam Shalamov

(1907 - 1982)

John McPhee

Italian artist, engineer, and scientist Leonardo da Vinci.

Leonardo da Vinci

(1452 - 1519)

Illustration of a man in fancy dress

Cassiodorus

(c. 490 - c. 585)

Kyle Harper

Kyle Harper

Bruno Latour

(1947 - 2022)

Depiction of Greek philosopher Plato.

Plato

(c. 427 BC - c. 347 BC)

Photograph of Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson

(1907 - 1964)

Seated man with a large white beard wearing a dark suit

Karl Marx

(1818 - 1883)

Enheduanna

(c. 2285 BC - 2250 BC)

Photograph of President Abraham Lincoln sitting in a chair.

Abraham Lincoln

(1809 - 1865)

David Wallace-Wells

R. Buckminster Fuller

(1895 - 1983)

Katharine Viner

He Zhu

(c. 1066 - c. 1100)

Timothy Morton

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

Mark Twain

(1835 - 1910)

Carl Sagan

(1934 - 1996)

Fernand Braudel

(1902 - 1985)

Octavia E. Butler

(1947 - 2006)

Engraving of a bust of Lucretius.

Lucretius

(c. 95 BC - c. 50 BC)

Al-Masudi

(c. 893 - c. 956)

Masanobu Fukuoka

(1913 - 2008)

J.G. Farrell

(1935 - 1979)

Ptolemy

(c. 100 - c. 170)

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

H.G. Wells

(1866 - 1946)

Emperor Wen

(203 BC - 157 BC)

Don Marquis

(1878 - 1937)

Portrait of French political philosopher Montesquieu.

Montesquieu

(1689 - 1755)

Eleanor Perényi

(1918 - 2009)

John Burroughs

(1837 - 1921)

Portrait of Chinese fiction writer Pu Songling.

Pu Songling

(1640 - 1715)

Welsh clergyman and historian Gerald of Wales.

Gerald of Wales

(c. 1146 - c. 1223)

Engraving of William Shakespeare from the first folio edition.

William Shakespeare

(1564 - 1616)

Svante Arrhenius

(1859 - 1927)

Susan Fenimore Cooper

Susan Fenimore Cooper

(1813 - 1894)