Cronon, William, “The Trouble with Wilderness or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature”, Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature ed. William Cronon, (W.W. Norton 1995)

Wilderness is the place where, symbolically at least, we try to withhold our power to dominate.

Cronon, William, “The Trouble with Wilderness or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature”, Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature ed. William Cronon, (W.W. Norton 1995)

Idealizing a distant wilderness too often means not idealizing the environment in which we actually live, the landscape that for …

Cronon, William, “The Trouble with Wilderness or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature”, Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature ed. William Cronon, (W.W. Norton 1995)

This, then, is the central paradox: wilderness embodies a dualistic vision in which the human is entirely outside the natural. …

Cronon, William, “The Trouble with Wilderness or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature”, Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature ed. William Cronon, (W.W. Norton 1995)

In virtually all of its manifestations, wilderness represents a flight from history. Seen as the original garden, it is a …