Cronon Wilderness Analysis

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Cronon does not have a problem with protecting wild places; he has a problem with the way that we use this place as modern society. Instead of viewing wilderness as remote and massive, we need to focus on the wilderness and nature as our own backyard. Our current idea of wilderness “teaches us to be dismissive, or even contemptuous of such humble places and experiences.” (Cronon Pg 23) There is nothing different between the backyard tree, a mountaintop and the tree next door except the way we look at them. The power that wilderness has is to remind us that “By seeing the otherness in that which is most unfamiliar, we can learn to see it too in that which at first seemed merely ordinary. If wilderness can do this – if it can help us perceive