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Wilderness appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works. It not only offered an escape from society but also was an ideal stage for the Romantic individual to exercise the cult that he frequently made of his own soul. The solitude and total freedom of the wilderness created a perfect setting for either melancholy or exultation.

Roderick Nash

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

Roderick Nash

Roderick Nash

Roderick Nash

Bio: Roderick Frazier Nash is a professor emeritus of history and environmental studies at the University of California Santa Barbara. He was the first person to descend the Tuolumne River.

Known for:

Wilderness and the American mind
The rights of nature

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