Wilderness and the American Mind

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"In wildness is the preservation of the world."

Henry David Thoreau

William Faulkner's The Bear

A. What is wild in us all?

1 wilderness scope
2 the reality
- the problem of
- inviolability
3 Nash
4 Williams
- stories
5 Stegner
6 Nash versus Pollan
7 Margulis
- science and wildness
- wildlife
8 wildlife and values
9 McKibben
10 Alaska
11 global
12 At the Crossroads
- wildlife and wilderness
- Wildlife as a public trust
13 Island Civilization
- wild areas
- notes from the field
14 Economy of wild
- accounting for the assets
- Writing about protecting wilderness values in spite of climate change and population growth, and financial depression.
- Loss of biological diversity

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B. Writing about protecting wilderness values

The vision of two great visonaries.

North America

President Theodore Roosevelt and Mr. John Muir in Yosemite Valley symbols of wilderness protection, conservation and preservation during the nation's troubled economic recovery.

We live, largely, in their vision of a nation built on the values of natural resources protection because they so loved wild beauty and dedicated their lives to furthering the knowledge on which depends wildlife restoration.