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Cronon - Trouble With Wilderness
Cronon - Trouble With Wilderness
by William Cronon
(William Cronon, ed., Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in
Nature, New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1995, 69-90)
Notes
1. Henry David Thoreau, Walking, The Works of Thoreau, ed. Henry S. Canby
(Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin, 1937), p. 672.
2. Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. wilderness; see also Roderick Nash,
Wilderness and the American Mind, 3rd ed. (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Univ.
Press, 1982), pp. 1-22; and Max Oelsehlaeger, The Idea of Wilderness: From
Prehistory to the Age of Ecology (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Univ. Press,
1991).
3. Exodus 32:1-35, KJV.
4. Exodus 14:3, KJV.
5. Mark 1:12-13, KJV; see also Matthew 4:1-11; Luke 4:1-13
6. John Milton, Paradise Lost, John Milton: Complete Poems and Major Prose,
ed. Merritt Y. Hughes (New York: Odyssey Press, 1957), pp. 280-81, lines 13142
7. I have discussed this theme at length in Landscapes of Abundance and
Scarcity, in Clyde Milner et al., eds., Oxford History of the American West (New
York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1994), pp. 603-37. The classic work on the Puritan
city on a hill in colonial New England is Perry Miller, Errand into the Wilderness
(Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Univ. Press, 1956).