Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An environmentalist, especially one who supports the preservation of forested land and the restriction of logging.
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- noun Alternative form of
tree hugger .
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Examples
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While I'm no militant environmentalist by any stretch of the imagination (I recycle; I don't compost), I do considered myself something of a tree-hugger.
Cathleen Falsani: God Is Green: Why 'Less Bad' Is Not Good Cathleen Falsani 2010
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While I'm no militant environmentalist by any stretch of the imagination (I recycle; I don't compost), I do considered myself something of a tree-hugger.
Cathleen Falsani: God Is Green: Why 'Less Bad' Is Not Good Cathleen Falsani 2010
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How is it that every tree-hugger alive thinks they are such experts on this stuff.
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While I'm no militant environmentalist by any stretch of the imagination (I recycle; I don't compost), I do considered myself something of a tree-hugger.
Cathleen Falsani: God Is Green: Why 'Less Bad' Is Not Good Cathleen Falsani 2010
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Most everything else seems to have at least some niche publishing house that will put it in print, from Aryan Nation style apocalyptic porn to ecodystopian tree-hugger porn to female vampire romance porn to manly military worshiping porn to Big Important People With Trillions of Dollars And Lifestyles To Match porn.
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How is it that every tree-hugger alive thinks they are such experts on this stuff.
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How is it that every tree-hugger alive thinks they are such experts on this stuff.
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His Pelosi-rammed, tree-hugger appeasing Cap and Tax bill is going to die (hey, nice try on getting India to sign on – NOT), more and more people are seeing that this healthcare farce will in no way handle the healthcare crisis and instead will create more taxes and higher unemployment.
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How is it that every tree-hugger alive thinks they are such experts on this stuff.
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Sustainability's original principles, going back to the first Earth Day, however, have included long term perspectives and a tree-hugger community of "be here now," pie-faced, granola-crunching (myself included) individuals who long ago embraced their own eco-welfare as tightly and ferociously as they embraced the eco-well-being of others, locally and globally (Does the term "Think global; act local" ring a bell?)
Michael DeJong: The Human Stain on "Sustainism" Michael DeJong 2011
johnmperry commented on the word tree-hugger
An environmental actvist
July 22, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word tree-hugger
Or a tree hugger! (I'm a tree-hugger, and I'm no activist).
July 22, 2008
robo commented on the word tree-hugger
Look at that knee dipping tree-hugger.
August 22, 2008
super-logos commented on the word tree-hugger
Thank God for tree-huggers. What I find interesting is that as we move towards becoming a paperless society, with more and more business being done and stored online, fewer trees will be hacked down. President Teddy Roosevelt and the Republicans were our first big environmentalists; too bad the Republicans are so anti-environment these days. Makes one wonder what "conservative" means if one is not for "conserving" trees.
August 22, 2008