“In the United States law, federally designated wilderness is famously defined as 'an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.' One environmental ethics text… — Emma Marris Copy Share
“In the United States law, federally designated wilderness is famously defined as 'an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.' One environmental ethics text defines natural like this: 'Something is natural to the extent that it is independent of human design, control, and impacts.'… — Emma Marris Copy Share
“...I found myself questioning many assumptions about 'nature' and 'wilderness' that were common in conservation at the time. Were all introduced species really bad?… — Emma Marris Copy Share Image
“To make good environmental decision, we must stop focusing on trying to remove or undo human influence, on turning back time or freezing the non-human world in amber. We must instead acknowledge the extent to which we have influenced our current world and take some responsibility for its future trajectory…We should not seek to carefully control every plant and animal… — Emma Marris Copy Share
“Wolves as symbols of wilderness are so culturally important that we humans will go to great lengths to protect the species purity, even if… — Emma Marris Copy Share Image
“In more recent years, I've increasingly reported on specific cases where the interests of individual animals seem to conflict with the goal of biodiversity… — Emma Marris Copy Share Image
“But 'wild' animals in the twenty-first century are not truly independent of humanity. In fact, today, I am not sure there are any 'wild… — Emma Marris Copy Share Image
