Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
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pp. 8-11
Abstract
Nash argues that compared to the millennia of anti-wilderness sentiment. the pace of intellectual change in the previous two centuries is so rapid that it must be considered revolutionary (1982 P. XI). Viewed in the context of human hi story and human attitudes, this is true. However, the actual development of a pro-wilderness viewpoint in America has followed an evolutionary course from the Romantic Movement through Emerson, Thoreau, Muir, and Leopold. The latest, logical manifestation of this evolutionary progress is the philosophy known as deep ecology.
Recommended Citation
David Ackerson
(2000)
"From Romanticism To Deep Ecology: The Continuing Evolution In American Environmental Thought,"
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education: Vol. 12:
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