It is really not the wilderness that needs management (it has been doing quite well, after all, for a couple of billion years), but people.

Wilderness is not so much a place, but a feeling about one.

Environmental history... refer[s] to the past contact of man with his total habitat. . . . The environmental historian like the ecologist [s]hould think in terms of wholes, of communities, of interrelationships, and of balances.

It is really not the wilderness that needs management (it has been doing quite well, after all, for a couple of billion years), but people.

Environmental history fit[s] into the framework of New Left history. [It is] history "from the bottom up," except that here the exploited element [is] the biota and the land itself.

Take away wilderness and you take away the opportunity to be American.