Chapter 1 Personal Notes

Question 1

Beliefs about the environment are ?

Answer 1

contingent (can change)

Question 2

imagine each of these historical patterns through changes in ?
which is?

Answer 2

discourse: pattern of knowledge and power communicated through human expression (linguistic and non linguistic)

Question 3

antagonism ?

Answer 3

the cultural recognition of the limit of an idea

Question 4

What book started what Nash called American tradition of repugnance for nature

Answer 4

The New World by William Bradford

Question 5

Nature as an American National Identity

Answer 5

championed distinctive characteristics of it natural landscape
-wilderness was an american asset

Question 6

main view in all of these tropes

Answer 6

constituting environment as nature: physical world that exceed human creation

Question 7

Yosemite National Park was the first successful ?

Answer 7

proposal for preservation of natural scenery to gain widespread attention and national support

Question 8

Preservationists most significant victory was ?

Answer 8

wilderness act

-designate wilderness areas “untrammeled by man, where man is visitor”