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“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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Book:Wilderness and the American Mind

Source: Wilderness and the American Mind

“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.”

People Needs Years Wells Has Beens Couple Management Billions Wilderness

Author:Roderick Nash

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

Feelings Wilderness

Author:Roderick Nash

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

Opportunity Wilderness

Book:Wilderness and the American Mind: Fifth Edition

Source: Wilderness and the American Mind: Fifth Edition

“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.”

Thinking Men Past Term Community Balance Environmental Contact Historian Habitat Environmental History

Author:Roderick Nash

“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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Author:Roderick Nash

About the Author

Born: January 7, 1939
Known for: Author
Quotes: 6

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Wilderness and the American MindRelated source material

Wilderness and the American Mind: Fifth EditionRelated source material

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