" historians expect scientists to acknowledge that their ideas of nature, even their most complex scientific ideas, are the products of the cultures in which they live. Ideas of nature have a history, and their history is linked inextricably to the history of culture, whether economic, aesthetic, or whatever. We cannot isolate the study of our views of nature into one division called “science” and into other divisions called literature, the arts, religion, or philosophy, for they all float along together in a common flow of ideas and perceptions. "

― , Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination