Concepts to Define

CONCEPTS TO DEFINE AND US IN PERSUASIVE PAPERS

1 Anthropocentrism (Emerson, Thoreau, Snyder, Dominy, Pinchot…)

2 Ecocentrism (Thoreau, Berry, Brower…)

3 Human time v Natural time (Thoreau, Berry, Abbey…)

4 Lessons of the Wilderness Experience (The Etiquette of Freedom): Berry and Thoreau and Snyder

5 Anthropomorphism ( Abbey…)

6 Pantheism (Emerson, Thoreau, Muir…)

7 Deified Transcendence (Emerson, Muir…)

8 Organic Transcendence (Thoreau, Berry…)

9 Opportunity Cost (Thoreau): “amount of life I must give up in the choosing of any endeavor”

10 Industrial Tourism (Abbey and Brower…)

11 Idea of Wilderness (Stegner)

12 Societal Self v Natural Self (Emerson, Thoreau, Abbey, Berry…)

13 “Indemnity (reparation) in the inviolable order for the world” (Emerson, Thoreau,…)

14 Spiritual and Ecological Interconnectivity in nature (Emerson, Thoreau, Berry, Abbey, Snyder)

15 No nature (Thoreau, Abbey, Snyder)

16 Need to see our limits transgressed (Thoreau, Abbey, Berry…)

17 Intrinsic Value of Wilderness (Brower, Abbey, Snyder…)

18 Bioregionalism (Snyder, Berry...)

19 10 Principles of the Code of Etiquette of Freedom that stems from the wilderness experience (Snyder)

• 1. Do no unnecessary harm (4)

  2. Accept conditions as they are (5):

  3. Moral obligation to the unborn humans, flora and fauna (44)

  4. Know that the world is wild. (5-6, 16) Know that humans are wild: wilderness develops a natural self. (7, 15, 17, 31):

  5. Celebrate gift exchange of our give and take from nature: Be humble, grateful, mindful. (20, 22, 23) :

  6. Know that wilderness places have all original flora and fauna intact. (10,12)

  7. Learn self-effacement and self-renewal through “practices” in wilderness. (21, 24-25 )

  8. Think bioregionally: embrace an ecocentric perspective. (12, 40-41)

  9. Recognize the interconnection and interdependence within the ecosystem. (40-41)

  10. Practice Ecocentrism: know that the natural world is watching. (19, 22):

21 Six different perspectives of wolves: mythological, anthropocentric, anthropomorphic, scientific, indigenous,ecocentric (Mowat)

22 Wilderness Idea and American Character (Stegner)

23 Thinking Like a Mountain or Ecocentrism (Leopold)

24 Wolves are Territorial, not nomadic (Mowat 80-82)

25 Wolves parent by pack; not promiscuos (146)

26 Carrying Capacity of deer achieved by wolves (180-2)

27 Internal birth control mechanisms in wolves and varies litter sizes based on prey abundance

28 Wolf predation: caches, returned to kills during denning season

29 Wolf diet: 48% rodents (227)

30 Native Self v Alien Self (246)