Week 4

Question 1

Problems with the idea of nature having balance

Answer 1

False hope of a natural recovery

Shifts and dilutes the responsibility

Discredits that ecosystems can be protected and
managed (environmental stewardship)

Question 2

Old ideas of sustainability

Answer 2

Plato’s laments of the land in Critias

In Judaism, Sabbath for the land

Chinese fengshui forests

Sacred groves in India

Question 3

Arcadian vision of nature

Answer 3

Shakespeare’s play in countryside – A Midsummer
Night’s Dream

Poems of William Wordsworth

Beauties and virtues of nature

“harmony” with nature

Question 4

Rise of the preservationists

Answer 4

John Muir was the father of a new
school of thought and activism in US
conservation, the philosophy of
preservationism.

Question 5

Theodore roosevelt

Answer 5

US President who made
conservation a national
priority during his presidency
from 1901
to 1909.

Question 6

Scientific conservation

Answer 6

the application of scientific principles and methods to preserve, protect, and manage natural resources and biodiversity.