Harriet Tubman and Nature

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From Kate Clifford Larson's biography Bound for the Promised Land, Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero:
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Tubman's skill at curing soldiers stricken by a variety of diseases was well known. At one point during the [Civil] war, Tubman was called to Fernandina, Florida, by the Union surgeon in charge, to help cure the men of debilitating and often deadly dysentery. When she arrived, "they was dying off like sheep." She prepared a medicinal tea "from roots which grew near the water which gave the disease." She went into the swamps and "dug some roots and herbs and made a tea for the doctor [who had been afflicted with the disease] and the disease stopped on him," she sold Emma Telford. "And then he said, 'give if to de soldiers.' So I boiled up a great boiler of roots and herbs, and the General told a man to take two cans and go round and give it to all in the camp that needed it, and it cured them.' " 126

From Kate Clifford Larson's biography Bound for the Promised Land, Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero:
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Tubman said she could tell time "by the stars, and find her way by natural signs as well as any hunter." 65

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​“All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. His instincts prompt him to compete for his place in that community, but his ethics prompt him also to co-operate (perhaps in order that there may be a place to compete for). The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land."
                                                                                                                 from Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac