ARCHIVE - Visualizing Ecology - Wilderness and Roadless Areas http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecofall/taxonomy/term/20/0 Please post your essay on wilderness and roadless areas in this forum. You should cut-and-paste the essay into the window. Your replies should focus on the content of other students' essays; we will do a formal peer review in seminar this week. en ARCHIVE - R.J. Jensen http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecofall/r-j-jensen <p>R.J. JensenOctober 29, 06Visualizing Ecology     Uncommon Ground    The chapters we read from the book Uncommon Ground had some really thought provoking and intriguing ideas.  I think the reason these chapters were so intriguing is because of the way that they bring their points across and the way that all the authors back everything up with quotes from John Muir’s “divine manuscript” and quotes from other important environmental advocators such as Henry David Thoreau then their are also quotes from Lewis and Clark.  They also take quotes from people like Pollan.  I feel that this really gets his message to the world and explains what it is he&#39;s trying to get across which is that humans are in and among nature where ever they are.  In the densest city its possible to see grass cracking through the cement.      “The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature” by William Cronon has a few things that he says that are interesting and he makes some really intriguing points in his essay.   The point  he makes about  North America never really not being inhabited is a really thought provoking line that he says.  He talks about how the Native Americans lived every where on this continent.  Cronon says “The myth of the wilderness as “virgin,” uninhabited land had always been especially cruel when seen from the perspective of the the Indians who had once called that land home.”(pg.</p> <p><a href="http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecofall/r-j-jensen">read more</a></p> http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecofall/r-j-jensen#comment Wilderness and Roadless Areas Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:05:48 -0800 jenrob16 386 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecofall