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ÒThe Idea of a
Garden,Ó a storm in a forest
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"normal ecological and
evolutionary processes (78) biological safe-deposit box"
scenery, recreation and economics are no good!
scientific -- spiritual --
aesthetic -- heritage -- psychological -- cultural -- intrinsic
"The point is that wilderness
appreciation has been a creed, a faith, something you felt in your bones,
something that was only sullied by our analysis and explication."
"There is a need for the
articulation of wilderness values based on historical fact, contemporary
experience and the projected future needs of human life. This is the vital
philosophy of wilderness."
"wilderness....It's our
biological and cultural mother." (78)
"Wilderness is the best place
to learn humility, dependency and reverence for all life." (81)
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37 ¦ to argue "our idea of wilderness had become part of the problem" here: Pollan -- the image and the symbol of the garden
Summer
storm 7-10-1989
Housatonic
River Valley
"This
forty-two acre forest of
old-growth white pine trees close to the center of town... was one of the
oldest stands of white pine in New England ...untouched since about 1800." (192; ¦-2)
"I
also began to wonder if it might be possible to formulate a different ethic to guide us in our dealings with nature... an ethic that
would be based not on the idea of a wilderness but on the idea of a garden."
What
is a garden? What are
nature's intentions for Cathedral Pines?
(195; ¦ 15)
"The
cathedral pines are not, then, 'virgin growth.' (¦ 8; pp.
193-194)
In
1883É to protect the trees from the threat of logging
"Cathedral
pines is not in any meaningful sense a wilderness."
"Fire suppression is one of the more significant effects that the European has had on the American Landscape." (194) |
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"Development and the
preservation of wilderness are not compatible."
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ÒThe wilderness ethic doesnÕt tell us what to do.... and laissez faire economics ... are mirror images.... p. 200
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