Marie Bohlen

Overview

Marie Bohlen born Pennsylvania, PA July 4, 1924 (d. 2014). Quaker artist. "A founding mother of Greenpeace." Inspired protest against Amchitka atomic tests, 1971.

Quotations

"Why the hell doesn’t somebody just sail a boat up there [Amchitka] and park right next to the bomb?" (Nov. 1971, in Paul Wapner, Environmental Activism, 1996, p.45)