Wildrness

Question 1

how is wilderness defined in the US Wildnerness act

Answer 1

an area not touched by man in which man does not remain, we are just visitors

Question 2

historical euro-american meaning of wilderness

Answer 2

-Deserted
-Savage
-Desolated
-Barren
-Waste
-Dangerous

Question 3

from worthless wasteland to exalted heaven

Answer 3

meaning change from wasteland to tample

Question 4

nations driving the idea of wilderness the subline

Answer 4

 Romantic-Transcendental nature
philosophy (e.g. Thoreau, Muir)

 Element of sacredness in nature

 Symbol of God’s presence on
Earth (e.g. mountain as
cathedral)

Question 5

Notions driving the idea of ‘wilderness’:
The Frontier

Answer 5

 Place at the edge of civilization

 Freer, truer and more natural
than modern civilization

 The choice\ for elite tourists and well-
to-do city men

 Wilderness - a place where you
need a “ticket” to visit

Question 6

trouble with wilderness

Answer 6

–it romanticize the idea of wilderness
and just appreciate the beutifull landscapes(mountains,forests) but fail to appreciate swempts,desserts that are less beautiful so some parts of the wilderness is more important then other

-removed indigenous people from the wilderness so tourists could go there

-the elite is the only was able to access it.

-frontiers drivers

-need to suicide? if to protect nature we must not exist so it so it does not help us think about sustainable ways:To do so is merely to take to a logical extreme the paradox that was built into wilderness from the beginning: if nature dies because we enter it, then the only way
to save nature is to kill ourselves. The absurdity of this proposition flows from the
underlying dualism it express

-separates nature from society

Question 7

1-wilderness as a cultural invention

Answer 7

-myth of untouched nature or unhibitated land

-Places we think as ‘pristine’ probably had people living there at some point in time

Question 8

2-Dissmises the wild around us

Answer 8

ex:bosques,florests

Question 9

3-dismisses less sublime landscapes

Question 10

4-does not adress sustainability #

Answer 10

-Provides an escape from ‘civilization’ and ‘get
away’ from our destructive lifestyles

• Does not address our responsibility to:
  Build a relationship with Nature that
  surrounds us
  Live within limits as global citizens

Question 11

5-reinforces of dichotomous worldview

Answer 11

-Reinforces nature vs. culture duality (i.e. wilderness is where
humans are not)

• Divorces our understanding of our dependence and
  interaction with nature
• No place for humans to actually make a living from the land

Implicit and problematic idea:
-We must protect nature from people
-Inevitable conflict between human and non-human nature

Question 12

What are the practical implications
of the wilderness myth?

Answer 12

-that the place were turists goes had people there once ,

Question 13

Not just a historical problem

Answer 13

-“Fortress conservation” spread throughout the world

-“It’s no secret that millions of native peoples around the world have been pushed off their land to make room for big oil, big metal, big timber, and big
agriculture.

-But few people realize that the same thing has
happened for a much nobler cause: land and wildlife conservation.”