“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 former prairies now long vanished—as somehow more “natural” than the streets, buildings, and parks of Chicago?… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
