Wilderness & Values

Question 1

Sublime

Answer 1

Boundaries between natural and supernatural less certain in wilderness

Question 2

What were the 2 ideas about wilderness and rugged individualism?

Answer 2

Escape civilization

Heroic and masculine

Question 3

What is the meaning behind wild land for recreation?

Answer 3

Not source for home and labor and to consume rather than produce

Question 4

In what ways did the open land back in the 1800s attract the wealthy and upper class?

Answer 4

Enormous estates in the Adirondacks, cattle ranches for would-be rough riders on the Great Plains, guided big-game hunting trips in the Rockies, and luxurious resort hotels wherever railroads pushed their way into sublime landscape

Question 5

The wilderness created a “creation of culture”? What does this mean?

Answer 5

A source of escape, find “true selves”

Question 6

What are the 4 consequences of viewing nature apart from human life and daily activities?

Answer 6

1) If only see nature as remote, fail to recognize how daily activities interact with nature (home, work, shopping)
2) Idea of preserving land aside from people forces indigenous people off land
3) Ignores environmental problems that are not wilderness-related
4) If humans corrupt nature by definition, no path forward for living sustainably