The bow-tied W. Thacher Longstreth agreed to meet a few young people who wanted to celebrate Mother Earth. In the spring of 1970, they called it Earth Day. “I thought at first it was just a ...

"The earth is my mother, and on her bosom I shall repose." Attributed to Tecumseh in the early 1800s, this statement is frequently cited to uphold the view, long and widely proclaimed in scholarly and ...