The Trouble with Wilderness by William Cronon


The Trouble with Wilderness
Title : The Trouble with Wilderness
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Language : English
Format Type : Essay
Number of Pages : 4
Publication : First published January 1, 1995

William Cronon published a number of versions of this essay, each aimed at a different audience. This version comes from the New York Times (1995); another version appears as the introduction to a book Cronon edited, "Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature" (1995), a collection of essays on the environment.

Cronon, Wiliam. "The Trouble with Wilderness." 1995. The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction. Ed. Melissa A. Goldthwaite et al. 14th ed. New York: Norton, 2016. 550-53. Print.

The Trouble with Wilderness Reviews

  • Helena

    my dude's got a point

  • Hannah Brick

    Ohhhhhh brother is there trouble! Also sanctity? Also poor people can’t enjoy nature like rich people can….?? Okay… interesting read

  • Erika S

    Today, we so often glorify Nature and the Wilderness today as pristine, beautiful, often relaxing places where we experience various adventures, but how we view the Wilderness has changed drastically over the centuries.

  • Andreas Tanesha

    Had to read this for my college class and I think it's a pretty great essay on the danger of romanticizing the idea of wilderness.

  • Clay

    insightful, life-changing, mind-opening. any environmentalist, environmental historian, or person who owns a plant should read this NOW or suffer 10,000 deaths

  • Min

    this guy gets it !

  • Abbie O'Hara

    Excellent way to challenge thinking of “wilderness”

  • pj

    okay i usually don’t log the individual essays that we read for class because it’s tedious and there are so many.

    HOWEVER

    this entire essay was just one Hot Take about the elitist definition of the idea of “wilderness” and i loved it