PERMACULTURE - 10 Historical Figures You Had No Idea Were Environmentalists

Genghis Khan (1162 - 1227)
King Edward I of England (1239 - 1307)
Richard Nixon (1913 - 1994)
Pythagoras (c. 570 BC - c. 495 BC)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968)
Ányos Jedlik (1800 - 1895)
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Mohandas Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
Ted Kaczynski (1942 - )
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)


http://www.treehugger.com/slideshows/culture/10-historical-figures-you-had-no-idea-were-environmentalists/to Theodore Roosevelt, who pioneered the concept of national parks and preserved huge swathes of the American wilderness. After that come green heroes like John Muir and Rachel Carson.