Choose Your Mentors
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6 mentors found
Henry David Thoreau
19th Century America
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Transcendentalist philosopher and civil disobedience advocate
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
From: Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience
108 mentor adoptions
Charles Darwin
1809-1882
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Naturalist who developed the theory of evolution by natural selection
There is grandeur in this view of life
From: On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection: Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
92 mentor adoptions
Claude Monet
19th Century France
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Master of light and founder of Impressionism
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
From: The French Impressionists (1860-1900)
40 mentor adoptions
Audubon
19th century America
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Naturalist and artist who documented American birds with unprecedented beauty and scientific accuracy
A true conservationist knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children
From: Audubon the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time. Vol. 2 (of 2)
35 mentor adoptions
Humboldt
18th-19th Century Germany/Americas
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Father of ecology and scientific exploration of the Americas
"The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world."
From: Letters of Alexander von Humboldt to Varnhagen von Ense.: From 1827 to 1858. With extracts from Varnhagen's diaries, and letters of Varnhagen and others to Humboldt
22 mentor adoptions
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1712-1778
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Author of The Social Contract and Emile, champion of natural freedom and critic of civilization
The philosopher who believed man is born free but everywhere in chains
From: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
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