Racheal Devine                                       about 150 words

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Science Writing INTD 105-19

The Trouble with Wilderness

William Cronon, the author of the essay “The Trouble with Wilderness” develops his ideas on what wilderness means starting from the late eighteenth century all the way to modern day. “For many Americans wilderness stands as the last remaining place where civilization, that all too human disease, has not fully infected earth.” Starting 250 years ago he describes how the wilderness was thought of as anything but positive, and more as a biblical place. Beginning in the nineteenth century people started to look at the wilderness as a preservation of the world, at this time is when national parks began to be created. In the twentieth century wilderness turned into the frontier and sublime as in the “rare places on earth where one had more chance than elsewhere to glimpse the face of god.” Wilderness today is just one big environmental concern and acts as the foundation for a list of other concerns.

This can connect to my mini essay of the vines because they are wilderness just the same but looked more as a decoration.