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Daniel Quinn was an American author, cultural critic, and publisher of educational texts.
He is best known for his novel Ishmael, which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991.
Quinn's ideas are popularly associated with environmentalism, though he criticized this term for portraying the environment as separate from human life, thus creating a false dichotomy.
Instead, Quinn referred to his philosophy as "new tribalism".
He was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1935, and died in Houston, Texas, in 2018.
Quinn was married three times and had two children.
He was a prolific writer, publishing over 20 books in his lifetime.
His work has been translated into over 20 languages.
Quinn was a controversial figure, but he was also a respected and influential thinker.

It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can't watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor's tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.

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