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Saturday/Sep/19:03 2010Daniel Quinn
Daniel Quinn
Daniel Quinn (born 1935 in Omaha Nebraska is an American writer described as an environmentalist
He is best known for his book Ishmael (1992), which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Awards in 1991.
Quinn himself does not, however, identify as an "environmentalist," pointing out that the term evokes the notion of something that is "out there," and somehow "not us." The typical conception of environmentalism, Quinn argues, is one of a false-dichotomy --- a false division that says there's "the environment," and then there's "us humans" living in the environment (and somehow not a part of it).