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Perhaps because of my lack of understanding, wilderness somehow seems more conceptual. As Mingwei mentioned, the thoughts upon the wilderness developed from “antithesis of all that was orderly and goo ...

This reading was quite provoking, perturbing and challenging. I doubtingly agree with Pollan’s definition of wilderness; “…something beyond the reach of history and accident…” (397). The combination o ...

It is quite clear in Abbey’s essay that accessibility achieved from automobiles draw much more tourists. Reading his essay and descriptions of “Wheel Chair Explorers,” (275) modern tourists seemingly ...

Reading those interesting postings and this weekend’s reading reminds me what Rachel’s friend Mr. Hamilton (Sorry I forgot your name) said before; Human can only be a visitor in nature. In the reading ...

Ahh today’s readings remind me of Worster. He mentioned human adapts into nature by developing technology, and at the end, change the nature with their tech. He said this is the human nature, and unde ...

I agree with Isaiah’s idea. Water has to be common source, since “water is as essential to life and health as bread,” (193) but surely, municipal system cannot avoid having certain limit in providing ...

Question first; Former readings said that Native Americans devastated the environment of North America, but Isenberg suggested that their farming, hunting and gathering life “protected them from both ...

This reading seems like an extension of yesterday’s reading. Maybe because the remnants of yesterday’s reading made negative perspective in mind, I respectfully and carefully disagree on stoval’s idea ...

Quite contrary to the harmonic whine that I portrayed before, this reading came as the most favorable one among what we’ve read so far (though it was somewhat confusing). It was interesting to see the ...

Amy, I agree with you. The first two of part one were more likely histories, rather than Histories, as if they are primary sources (diary, I suppose?) from colonists.

After Reading the part two, 'E ...

I agree with Mingwei’s idea on the purpose of studying environmental history. Although Cronon warned of human’s action upon environment saying “we can never know the consequence of our actions… (pg 10 ...

Isaiah mentioned of human’s damage to the environmental and the author’s attitude of neglecting it as insignificant event. In right side of the page 3, which fascinated me the most, the author explain ...

What Fukuyama proposed is, based on what I understand so far, is that according to Hegelian dialectic method, human race has been progressed, and current economic/social status (democracy?) is the fin ...

Bohr explained light in combination of wave and particle, with connection with electrons, commenting that electron exist in stabilized state that ‘can only radiate at certain energies’ (122). He claim ...

This is way more conceptual than I thought in today’s class Smile

Michelson-Morley experiment negated the existence of either, with the insufficient evidence of ether's existence as his evidence.
Ein ...