January 29, 1927

Indiana, Pennsylvania

March 14, 1989

Near Tucson, Arizona

Writer, environmental activist

"The forests and mountains and desert canyons are holier than our churches. Therefore let us behave accordingly."

On May 7, 2000, two hundred protesters in Franc-Waret, Belgium, gathered for a picnic and then walked through a field where the Monsanto Corporation was growing an experimental variety of corn. They destroyed several parcels of the corn while a rock band played from a nearby truck. Earlier in the year, a woman in Lancaster, England, had gone on trial for damaging equipment and painting slogans on a U.S. submarine while it was docked in Barrow, England, in 1991.

These were just two out of dozens of events supported by Earth First!, a radical environmental organization devoted to taking direct action against corporations and...