Adrian Buck’s Reviews > Wilderness and the American Mind > Status Update

" North did [Huxley] acknowledge that for more than fifty years the principal object of the national park movement in England was, in reality, Africa."

Thanks to Yellowstone (1872) Yosemite (1890) the National Park Service Act (1916)... the Wilderness Act (1964) and the Alaska National Interest Landshipping Conservation Act (1980) the US has maintained a reputation as the world's foremost protector of wildlife and wilderness."

"The procession of English tourists to the Alps was the first major instance of nature importing as a social and intellectual movement. "

"...and adult male lion in Ambroseli National park in Kenya generates $515,000 in tourist revenue over the course of its lifetime."

"In the half century between Gore's safari and Roosevelt's the United States changed from being an exporter to an importer of wild nature."

"Wilderness entrance examinations, comparable to those used to select college students, may not be far around the corner."

"If a visitor was on occasion killed and eaten, that was the way of the wilderness that was being preserved. Eliminate the risk and you eliminate the wilderness"

"He did not like the constructed trails, elaborate shelters, latrines and corrals"

four revolutions contributed to the overrunning of the woods; the intellectual, the equipment, the transportation, and the information