The Trouble With Wilderness

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label" (Cronon 174). Cronon doesn't believe that the things we currently define as wilderness shouldn't be called wilderness, but he believes that there is a problem with only recognizing certain places to be wilderness. In his essay Cronon says, "If wild nature is the only thing worth saving, and if our mere presence destroys it, then the sole solution to our own unnaturalness, the only way to protect sacred wilderness from profane humanity, would seem to be suicide. It is not a proposition that seems likely to produce very positive or practical results" (Cronon 176). In this quote he is pointing out the flaw is some environmentalists view, I agree that this idea is flawed. Cronon instead suggests that we should see wilderness as part of everything. In Cronon's view, we can't destroy wilderness because it is everywhere, not just in designated areas. This point of view is an optimistic view of wilderness but it ignores that fact that we are destroying our Earth's vital resources at ...

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