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Murray Morgan
(16 Feb 1916 - 22 Jun 2000)
American author and historian who wrote on the history of the American Northwest. His career spanned journalist, political commentator, theater and arts reviewer, political activist, freelance writer, and college history teacher.
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Science Quotes by Murray Morgan (1 quote)
It was strangely like war. They attacked the forest as if it were an enemy to be pushed back from the beachheads, driven into the hills, broken into patches, and wiped out. Many operators thought they were not only making lumber but liberating the land from the trees...
[On the first logging of the U.S. Olympic Peninsula.]
[On the first logging of the U.S. Olympic Peninsula.]
— Murray Morgan
The Last Wilderness (1955). In William Dietrich, The Final Forest: the Battle for the Last Great Trees of the Pacific Northwest (1992), 21.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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