Mark Spence's Dispossessing The Wilderness

The image I found on Google presents a quiet, free, and peaceful scenery of the nature. Everything happened there are by God’s will. There are no government regulations, no uneven development of places, and no inequality between people. Residents who lived there adopt a free lifestyle; they do not need to worry about what will happen tomorrow. There is no worry and no regret for the residents because they follow their hearts and let other people to decide whether they are serious or not. They plant and hunt for their own foods and appreciate the gift nature gives to them. This is the lifestyle I have always wanted to live in because I can know myself better and understand my real needs. My life is excluded from this ideal world because there is always someone who is more knowledgeable and experienced guiding the path. When we first attend pre-school, we started to learn that there are rules of place and we cannot do everything we want in certain places. It is hard to find a place, which represent the real nature nowadays because everything had been commercialized and people will do everything for money. In Mark Spence’s piece, Dispossessing the Wilderness, we learned that the government set laws and regulations in order to remove the Indians from the Yellowstone National Park because many people viewed Indians as “savage” and “dangerous”. The government wants to preserve the image of a “wonderland” in the visitor’s eyes and also protect the nature from the Indians. What the government means by protecting the nature is that “wilderness preservation must become the ‘dominant idea’ behind the development of and protection of the national park” (Spence, 62). The …show more content…
In my eyes, nature should maintain the feeling of freedom that it gives to people and we shouldn’t change the way of nature by excluding native people and set up fences in the means of “protecting”