Summary Of Desert Solitaire By Edward Church

In 2008, the Grand Canyon received 4, 425, 314 visitors. On average, 6,500 cars enter the park on a typical summer day. In 2009, 38, 574 people participated in (area far away from cities) trips. In 2008, there were 56,000 (beautiful to look at) air tours at the Grand Canyon, about 136 per day during peak season. The Grand Canyon has been preserved and protected by the U.S. National Park Service, and has been open to the public. I (not very long ago) read a piece by Edward Church, his novel Desert Solitaire. Church worked as a ranger for the United States National Park Service at the Arches National Monument. While working and living in southern Utah, Church brings across his disgust with industrial tourism as a poor attempt to understand nature and as an

Throughout his novel he argues against this development, which would lead to more industrial tourism and more human destruction of nature. Church wants to keep the tourists out and only allow people in whom are just like himself--invisible in a sense. He doesn't believe that tourists have the privilege to experience this nature the way he does.

However, I think nature and natural (wide views of nature scenes/wide areas of beautiful land) such as the Grand Canyon are something of true beauty, which needs to be experienced through a physical presence. We cannot experience this beauty and understand its value from far away. Leaving out/keeping out "tourists" from natural (wide views of nature scenes/wide areas of beautiful land) as Church argues, leaves out/keeps out a majority of the public from experiencing and fighting for (related to surrounding conditions or the health of the Earth) rights. If only a select few have experienced natural sights such as the Grand Canyon, only a few people will have an emotional connection and true will to fight to protect it. In order to appreciate (the health of the Earth/the surrounding conditions) we wish to protect, we need to understand its value