“….Americans hold
deeply conflicted notions
on the values of
wilderness for the sake of wilderness.
On the one hand, you
have the sentiment,
famously expressed by
Wallace Stegner….
that wilderness…..is
important…
’even if we never do
more than drive to its edge and look in.’
On the other is the
relentless pressure
to make every place of
wild beauty
accessible to the
lowest common denominator,
The person who is unwilling to step
more than a few feet
from his or her vehicle….”
WHICH
AUTHOR? WHICH BOOK?