Wilderness appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works. It not only offered an escape … - Roderick Nash

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We live in an enlightened age, however, an age that has learned to see and to value other living things as they are, not as we wish them to be. And the long and creditable history of science has taught us, if nothing else, to look carefully before we judge to judge, if we must, based on what we see, not what we would prefer to believe.

Roderick Nash

Wilderness appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works. It not only offered an escape from society but also was an ideal stage for the Romantic individual to exercise the cult that he frequently made of his own soul. The solitude and total freedom of the wilderness created a perfect setting for either melancholy or exultation.

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It is really not the wilderness that needs management (it has been doing quite well, after all, for a couple of billion years), but people.

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Wilderness is not so much a place, but a feeling about one.

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Environmental history. . . refer[s] to the past contact of man with his total habitat. . . . The environmental historian like the ecologist [s]hould think in terms of wholes, of communities, of interrelationships, and of balances.

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Take away wilderness and you take away the opportunity to be American.

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Environmental history fit[s] into the framework of New Left history. [It is] history "from the bottom up," except that here the exploited element [is] the biota and the land itself.

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