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What is wilderness and what is its relationship to humans? Can we actually experience wilderness, or does it cease to be wilderness once we have contact with it? Is it enough for wilderness advocates to know that wilderness exists even if they are excluded from it? The concept of wilderness is as intractable and as rich as wilderness itself, as the varied, even conflicting views of these writers attest.
Full introduction to the chapter Go
Selections in this chapter: - William Bradford, “A Hideous and Desolate Wilderness” from Journal (1620–35), [282] Go
- Henry David Thoreau, from “Walking” (1862), [284] Go
- Robert Marshall, “The Problem of the Wilderness” (1930), [288] Go
- Roderick Nash, from “The Value of Wilderness” (1977), [292] Go
- William Cronon, from “The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature” (1995), [299] Go
- Donald Waller, from “Getting Back to the Right Nature: A Reply to Cronon’s ‘The Trouble with Wilderness’” (1998), [305]Go
- Gary Snyder, “Trail Crew Camp at Bear Valley, 9000 Feet. Northern Sierra—White Bone and Threads of Snowmelt Water” (1968), [309] Go
INTERCONNECTIONS--supplementary readings from other chapters of the anthology - William Cronon, from “The View from Walden” in Changes in the Land (1983) (11), [377] Go
- Sharon Guynup, “Arctic Life Threatened by Toxic Chemicals, Groups Say” (2002) (15), [551] Go
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From the Iroquois Creation Story, as told in David Cusick, Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations (1827) (16), [567] Go - Chief Seattle, from “Chief Seattle’s Speech” (reconstructed 1887 [1854]) (16), [571] Go
- John Muir, from “Hetch Hetchy Valley” in The Yosemite (1912) (17), 606 Aldo Leopold, from “The Land Ethic” in A Sand County Almanac (1949) (17), [608] Go
- A. R. Ammons, “Corsons Inlet” (1965) (18), [643] Go
- Patricia Nelson Limerick, from “Disorientation and Reorientation: American Landscape Discovered from the West” in Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New West (2000) (19), [665] Go
- Henry David Thoreau, from “Ktaadn” (1848) in The Maine Woods (1864) (20), [686] Go
- Aldo Leopold, from “Thinking Like a Mountain” in A Sand County Almanac (1949) (20), [689] Go
- Robert Costanza, from “Valuation of Ecosystems Services and Natural Capital” in “Ecological Economics: Creating a Transdisciplinary Science” (1996) (23), [798] Go
- Raymond Bonner, from “Whose Heritage Is It?” in At the Hand of Man (1993) (25), [842] Go
Recommended further reading Go
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Pt I. Concepts & Case Studies 
