In Williams Cronon ” defining “the wilderness” and ” the environment” The question of how the wilderness is defined by human civilization and the environment being used as a place for the wealthy to have more properties and ownership. Labeling can be one definition for defines the wilderness even though we humans are considered mammals yet we isolated ourselves from the animals in wild and not interconnected as we think. Like if we name monuments after people
In one part of the passage is that “If the core problem of the wilderness is that it distances us too much from the very things it teaches us to value, then the question we must ask is what it can tell us about home, the place where we actually live” (Cronon, 23). What we call home is just one way of knowing our definition and it usually in a city building, a house on the suburbs or even just a farmhouse hundreds and thousands of miles away from Human civilization. The meaning of this is that there is no such thing as a single definition of what to call a home no matter how much time passes and changes certain things will always stay the same. Another point is that in “Indeed, my principal objection to wilderness is that it may teach us to be dismissive or even contemptuous of such humble places and experiences” (Cronon, 22). Being apart of an environment means that to have humbleness regardless where we end up and having respect for nature. What cronon has taught us is that there is somethings that nature has a place in our hearts no matter if we to destroy or artificially change the naturalness landscape it will always come back somehow.