At a time when threats to the physical environment have never been greater, it may be tempting to believe that people need to be mounting the barricades rather than asking abstract questions about the human place in nature. Yet without… — William Cronon Copy Share Image
“Killing was a relatively simple matter--a blow to the head, a knife to the throat--complicated only by how much one cared about the pain… — William Cronon Copy Share
“Resources, waterways, and climatic zones loom so large in their writings that one can almost forget that people have something to do with the… — William Cronon Copy Share
“By what peculiar twist of perception, I wondered, had I managed to see the plowed fields and second-growth forests of southern Wisconsin—a landscape of… — William Cronon Copy Share
“The trouble with wilderness is that it quietly expresses and reproduces the very values its devotees seek to reject. The flight from history that… — William Cronon Copy Share
We need to discover a common middle ground in which all of these things, from the city to the wilderness, can somehow be encompassed… — William Cronon Copy Share
At a time when threats to the physical environment have never been greater, it may be tempting to believe that people need to be… — William Cronon Copy Share
By seeing the otherness in that which is most unfamiliar, we can learn to see it too in that which at first seemed merely… — William Cronon Copy Share
As we gaze into the mirror it holds up for us, we too easily imagine that what we behold is Nature when in fact… — William Cronon Copy Share
We go to sanctuaries to remember the things we hold most dear, the things we cherish and love. And then-the great challenge-we return home… — William Cronon Copy Share
