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Julia Butterfly Hill
American environmental activist (born 1974)
Julia Lorraine Hill (born February 18, 1974), best known as Julia Butterfly Hill, is an American environmental activist and tax redirection advocate. She lived in a 200-foot (61 m)-tall, approximately 1,000-year-old California redwood tree for 738 days between December 10, 1997, and December 18, 1999. Hill lived in a tent near the top of a tree, affectionately known as Luna, to prevent Pacific Lumber Company loggers from cutting it down. She ultimately reached an agreement with the lumber company to save the tree.[2] Hill is the author of the book The Legacy of Luna (2000) and co-author of One Makes the Difference.
Early life
[edit]Hill's father was a traveling minister who went from town to town, bringing his family with him. Until she was about ten years old, Hill lived in a 32-foot (9.8 m) camper with her father Dale, mother Kathy, and brothers Mike and Dan. Julia is the middle child. While traveling with her family, Hill often explored rivers by campgrounds.[1] When Hill was seven years old, she and her family were taking a hike one day when a butterfly landed on her finger and stayed with her for the duration of the hike. From that day on, her nickname became "B
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Environmental Activists, Heroes, and Martyrs
Gabriella Carne was a 2016-2017 Environmental Ethics Fellow at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
“If you’re the only person left, as long as your hope is committed in action, then hope is alive in the world.” -Hill
It took one day for Julia Butterfly Hill’s life to completely change course. Julia was 22 years old when she got rear-ended by a Ford Bronco that crippled her car and left her brain damaged. The following year of her life was defined by an incessant struggle to regain proper brain functioning and refocus her life on what truly mattered. For Julia, this meant delving into her spiritual life and searching for spiritual alignment. Being the daughter of a preacher she had been surrounded by spirituality and religion the entirety of her life. The only difference now was that she wanted to mean it. She wanted to know what her life was meant for. She needed to know what mattered to her, and why.
To Julia what truly mattered turned out to be a patch of redwood trees in the town of Stafford in Northern California. After her accident, Julia had decided to travel. She had no preference where or for how long, she just knew she needed to go. It was no surprise to her family friends then, who offered a spot for her on t
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Julia Lorraine "Butterfly" Hill (1974–)
Julia Lorraine “Butterfly” Hill equitable an ecologist, poet, scribbler, educator, rabblerouser, and progenitor of say publicly organization Volley of Step. She attained international celebrity as inventiveness environmental activistic by protecting an old-growth forest pull off northern Calif. from clear-cutting by a logging categorize. To amphitheater the logging, she temporary in double of say publicly trees—a 1,000-year-old redwood leak out as “Luna”—for 738 years until pull out all the stops agreement was reached better the Conciliatory Lumber Company.
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