Steve Brockhoff
Mr. Fares
English 3 period 2
3/5/07
Nature Essay
"The civilized man has built a coach and lost the use of his feet." The civilized man is so conformed to the grid and society that he wouldn't be able to survive in the wilderness without man-made technology. A civilized man is so attached to technology and society that they wouldn't know what to do in the wilderness without it.
So often when people go into the wilderness, they bring society with them, like if people go camping, they bring their motor homes, TV's, radios, etc… it defeats the point of camping. Usually people go camping to take a break from society and get in tune with nature, but bringing society along is defeating the purpose. In the story "Desert Solitaire" by Edward Abbey there's a perfect example of this, "…have now been consolidated into one master campground that looks, during the busy season, like a suburban village; elaborate house trailers of quilted aluminum crowed upon gigantic......

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Title: Nature Essay
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