Aerial views converted Lindbergh, Markham, and the astronauts into environmentalists

Evidence

I think I am beginning to understand why Charles Lindbergh spent his last decades as a passionate environmentalist; why Beryl Markham, the English writer who as a young woman learned to fly in Kenya, as an old woman became a Kenyan naturalist; and why, of course, the early astronauts knew they had transformed public consciousness of the natural environment with the first photo of the entire shimmering globe. — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 1642

Categorization

• XREF: Overlaps the reader’s interest in Muir/McPhee/Matthiessen lineage via the kindred example of aviator-naturalists. — connects to: Aerial photographs of bulldozed subdivisions became a core visual argument for open-space activists — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 572
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 1642