Rabindranath Tagore, therenowned poet-philosopher who was bornhere, visited Chinatwice in the 1920s, leavingadeep imprint in the history of friendly exchanges between China and India.
Hornaday, and in the Deep Ecology movement, associated with Arne Naess, a Norwegian philosopher and mountaineer, who, in the early seventies, noticed that some environmentalists had begun arguing that no species was of greater worth than another, and that ecosystems should be protected for their own sake, not simply to benefit mankind.