Notable Ecologists, Environmentalists, & Conservationists Posters “Q...-R...-”
for science & social studies classrooms, home schoolers, offices.

Ellen Richards - Sanitary Engineer, Chemist
b. 12-3-1842; Dunstable, MA
d. 3-30-1911

Poster Text: “The quality of life depends upon the ability of society to teach its members how to live in harmony with their environment – defined first as family, then the community, then the world and its resources.” Ellen S. Richards

Among the first women to formally work as a scientist, Ellen Swallow Richards profoundly impacted people's daily lives. A pioneer in the field of sanitary engineering, she also applied scientific principles to domestic life in creating the field of home economics.

• Heroes of Science & Technology posters
• food safety posters

Ed Ricketts
b. 5-14-1897; Chicago, IL
d. 5-11-1948; California (car-train accident)

Marine biologist, ecologist, and philosopher Ed Ricketts is best known for Between Pacific Tides (1939), a pioneering study of intertidal ecology, and for his influence on writer John Steinbeck, which resulted in their collaboration on the Sea of Cortez, later republished as The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951).

FYI - Steinbeck fictionalized Ricketts' lab in Cannery Row; Ricketts was also friends with Joseph Campbell.

Theodore Roosevelt, Giclee Print

Theodore Roosevelt
b. 10-27-1858; New York City
d. 1-6-1919

Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt, the 26th President of the US, made lasting and significant contributions to the environment with the permanent preservation of the some of the most unique natural resources of the United States, approximately 230,000,000 acres as national parks, forests, and preserves.

Theodore Roosevelt quotes
• “In utilizing and conserving the natural resources of the Nation, the one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight.... The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.” Address to the National Editorial Association,
Jamestown, Virginia, June 10, 1907.
• “The government is us; we are the government, you and I.”
• “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
• “Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
• “Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.”
• “If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”

• Nobel Peace Prize, 1906 for the Peace Treaty ending the Russo-Japanese War.

John Ruskin
b. 2-8-1819; London, England
d. 1-20-1900

John Ruskin, an art and social critic, was extremely influential writer in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, espousing that art, and therefore architecture, express the values of a society.

Ruskin's first work, The Poetry of Architecture, was a “study of cottages, villas, and other dwellings which centred around a Wordsworthian argument that buildings should be sympathetic to their local environments, and should use local materials”.

• Mountainous Landscape by John Ruskin
• Great Thinker Quote- John Ruskin
• The Seven Lamps of Architecture, John Ruskin
• Praeterita (autobiography), John Ruskin