Wilderness. What defines wilderness? Wilderness is described as an uninhabited or inhospitable region somewhere. Some would say that the closest thing you can get to wilderness is Wyoming. Most people would describe wilderness as a place they’ve never been before and is unchartered territory for them. For example, a farmer who has worked the land all his life and has only been in one small town might consider big cities like New York or Los Angeles a place of wilderness. That could go both then the other way someone whose whole life has been in the city. Contemporary people or people living in present day might have a totally different perspective of what wilderness is than a person who lived a hundred years ago. Again they could be the same
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There are people out in this world who do believe in fulfilling your life to its fullest expectancy, but yet again there are people who repeat the same thing and never truly live. He wanted to live a full life and not die a person who didn’t live life to the fullest. That was probably one of Thoreau’s biggest fears after his trip to the wilderness of Walden. He realized up there over the course of two years what he had been missing and what he could’ve been doing all along. No one should live a shell of a life, but to reach out and soar to new heights. “You should never value anything more than yourself because nothing is certain or forever,” Maxwell J. Mangold states. Like this, Thoreau and many contemporary people believe in fulfilling …show more content…
“By law and in theory, wilderness is supposed to be places we leave alone, places untrammeled by man. They are set aside for nature and evolution to run its slow course, for better or worse, so future generations can sample a world without pavement and intrusion. The goal is to keep our heavy human footprint to a minimum,” Pete McBride writes. That is the golden idea, but we have failed to reach the goal of that idea. As industries run over wilderness and people consumed with greed kill bits of nature every step of the way there won’t be room to fix the problem because it will be long gone. People need to become more cautious and careful because the more the disrespect the wilderness or nature, the more it 's going to hurt them. Furthermore, there are many similarities and differences between Thoreau’s and a contemporary person’s
There are people out in this world who do believe in fulfilling your life to its fullest expectancy, but yet again there are people who repeat the same thing and never truly live. He wanted to live a full life and not die a person who didn’t live life to the fullest. That was probably one of Thoreau’s biggest fears after his trip to the wilderness of Walden. He realized up there over the course of two years what he had been missing and what he could’ve been doing all along. No one should live a shell of a life, but to reach out and soar to new heights. “You should never value anything more than yourself because nothing is certain or forever,” Maxwell J. Mangold states. Like this, Thoreau and many contemporary people believe in fulfilling …show more content…
“By law and in theory, wilderness is supposed to be places we leave alone, places untrammeled by man. They are set aside for nature and evolution to run its slow course, for better or worse, so future generations can sample a world without pavement and intrusion. The goal is to keep our heavy human footprint to a minimum,” Pete McBride writes. That is the golden idea, but we have failed to reach the goal of that idea. As industries run over wilderness and people consumed with greed kill bits of nature every step of the way there won’t be room to fix the problem because it will be long gone. People need to become more cautious and careful because the more the disrespect the wilderness or nature, the more it 's going to hurt them. Furthermore, there are many similarities and differences between Thoreau’s and a contemporary person’s