Analysis Of Wilderness By George Bryson

Sixty days of carrying 80-pound backpacks, sleeping under a tarp for shelter in the Utah winter – welcome to “wilderness therapy.”

In “The Last Wilderness Preserve” the author talks about how people should not go to Antarctica. There are dangers and people going there would create some of those dangers. In “A New Land of Opportunity” the author talks about how people should start making trips to  Antarctica while they still can. The only issue that would take place would be ice falling and melting making everything wet. The falling ice poses a threat as well.

In “The Trouble with Wilderness,” William Cronon illustrates the paradox within the notion of wilderness, describing that if wilderness is that which lies beyond civilization -- beyond humankind, then so is the notion of nature outside the realm of the human... that humans are therefore, unnatural. Further, he explains that if our concept of nature (and ultimately our concept of God) is outside of humanity, then our existence is synonymous with the downfall of nature. That wilderness is purely a construct of civilization is central to this argument.  For example, Cronon asserts that “the removal of Indians to create an ‘uninhabited wilderness’---uninhabited as never before in human history of the place---reminds us just how invented, just how constructed, the American wilderness really is” (pg.79). Instead of in isolation from civilization, Cronon finds that his most spiritual experiences with nature have always been closer to home… a sense of wildness (versus wilderness) can be found in one’s backyard, gazing from a front porch, and in the melding of the human experience with mother nature. One of Into the Wild’s final scenes drives home this idea by altering the literal point of view that main character, Chris McCandless, has had of both himself and of the world since the beginning of his two year journey.  Into the Wild attempts to dramatizes Cronon’s argument to rethink wilderness; we will examine how the film succeeds, and where it fails, to support its premise.

‘‘We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there. I may never in my life get to Alaska, for example, but I am grateful that it's there.’’-Edward Abbey

The American Wilderness Coalition is a non-profit organization that was formed in 1935 by a group of environmentalists. It is also known as The Wilderness Society. The coalition’s goal is to “Support the efforts of wilderness advocates and organizations nationwide that are working to protect America’s last remaining wild places. As of 2014 this group had more than 500,000 members and supporters.

Any book about prison would not be complete without a discourse on freedom. Ken Lamberton’s book, Wilderness and Razor Wire: A Naturalist’s Observations from Prison, approaches the obligatory topic, but the conversation is wildly different in its message: he loudly proclaims that communing with nature is freedom. The idea that you cannot have true freedom if you are disconnected with the world around you is something one expects to read from someone who is locked behind steel and concrete. He expands this meaning beyond prison life, though, forcing one to contemplate whether they are truly free when they walk in the world if they refuse to acknowledge and take part in the wildness around them.

Suzanne Collins dystopian story, “Gregor the Overlander” takes place in an underground world where all animals are 10 times their overland size. The main characters Gregor and his sister Boots, fell into the underland form a vent in their apartment in New York City. Gregor’s dad went missing over 2 years ago and was never found. When Gregor was in the under land he found out that there may be a chance his dad is still alive in the underworld. One of the many themes the author Suzanne Collins repetitively teaches us is to never give up on family no matter what gets in your way.

Canadian Parks & Wilderness Society (CPAWS) The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society serves to protect at least half of Canada’s public land and water wild forever. They focus on protecting large, connected areas of Canada’s wilderness. CPAWS was founded in 1963 “CPAWS envisages a healthy ecosphere where people experience and respect natural ecosystems.”

Examine the ways in which the unique indigenous lifestyles found in wilderness areas are under threat. A significant proportion of the world’s population – about 300 million people – are described as indigenous, or native, peoples. They belong to a rich and diverse array of cultures spread across the globe. Indigenous peoples are defined as the descendents of those people who inhabited an area before it was colonised by Europeans, or before a modern state was established there.

With environmental issues such as global warming, pollution, and natural resource depletion, it is indisputable that preserving the wilderness is essential for a sustainable future. While the effects are becoming more prominent today, the concern for maintaining a balance with nature has been around in the United States for over a century. In defense of preservation, one individual shares his perspective in his book, Desert Solitaire, of the crucial need for undisturbed wilderness and how the exploitation of it must be contained. Edward Abbey’s method to convey his message can be crude, unfiltered, and raw. Regardless, he argues “there is a way of being wrong which is also sometimes necessarily right” to justify his approach (xii). Although Abbey’s point of view is sometimes “violently prejudiced [and] unconstructive,” his message is passionate and thoughtfully presented in a manner that invites

Wilderness Protection is crucial to our environment, without it we would not have clean air to breathe or clean water to drink.

A Walk in the Woods by Lee Blessing was based on a historical event in 1982. Two negotiators, one from Russia and one from the U.S., took a walk into the woods during talks in Geneva. Russia was developing intermediate range missiles that only targeted European countries, thus making NATO impossible to act on the matter. The U.S. decided to upgrade Germany’s weapons to be on the same level as those of Russia. The US and the USSR meet for peace talks intending to Stone wall each other’s plans. The USSR was set on blocking deployment of the American Pershing IIs without giving up their SS-20s; President Reagan proposed both nations go to zero (adst.1.).

Bill Bryson’s “A Walk in the Woods” is a book that epitomizes the struggles that one needs to go through in order to better themselves. This is evident with the main characters. They are two middle aged men named Bryson, a man who resideds in New Hampshire and Katz, Bryson’s overweight alcoholic college friend from Iowa. When he thought of someone to accompany him, a grumpy college friend named Katz came to mind. As they started off, Bryson started off with the goal that the trail was only being hiked as a way to see the grand nation of America, but it lead to so much more as it uncovered many important topics. This is true because the trail was filled with adventure in discovering America’s heartland and realizing their own personal

The journey, the experiences; memories, lessons, the steps to get to the destination from the beginning, has seldom been talked about through the transformation of wilderness. However, the destination is well recognized throughout written history. During the Colonialization of America, there was a belief of wilderness being the land of the devil (Nash, 2012). Which continued to evolve into a legal stance known as The Wilderness Act of 1964, in which it describes wilderness as “area of undeveloped Federal land retaining its primeval character and influence, without permanent improvements or human habitation, which is protected and managed so as to preserve its natural conditions and which (1) generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature, with the imprint of man's work substantially unnoticeable; (2) has outstanding opportunities for solitude or a primitive and unconfined type of recreation; (3) has at least five thousand acres of land or is of sufficient size as to make practicable its preservation and use in an unimpaired condition; and (4) may also contain ecological, geological, or other features of scientific, educational, scenic, or

pack is already, well, packed, so she decides to entreat into the denser parts of the woods for some privacy. She finds a small slope that she walks up, and rounds a large bush at its top.