1926, Clark Wissler, The Relation of Nature to Man in Aboriginal America Chapter , As we remarked once before, there are two extreme views with respect to life, one attributing everything to the environment, the other to inherent abilities. If, for example, an unusual number of distinguished men are born and reared in the same locality, the environmentalists assert that the causes for their appearance were entirely external and that had their parents changed habitats with those residing elsewhere the result would have been the same, except that the family names of these eminent men would have been different.
(one who advocates for the protection of the biosphere) greeniechiefly Australia and New Zealand, slang, often derogatory, tree huggerslang, often disapproving
1939, Alfred L. Kroeber, Cultural and Natural Areas of Native North America, The environmentalist explanation would be that tropical environment retards or depresses culture through its physiological effect on the human organism.
