Simple Living/Minimalism Heroes:

Helen & Scott Nearing
St. Francis
Peace Pilgrim
Daniel Suelo
My permaculture mentors and friends


These are just a few that come to the top of my mind.


ETA: thanks for sharing your experience, freshstart. I work in healthcare (not as an HCP, but as a marketer) and I'm always so inspired by the passion oncologists have and how much they love working with patients at these most vulnerable points in their lives--just as you've state here. Working with devastating and sometimes terminal illness is truly a calling and God bless you guys for doing it.