The exquisite sight, sound, and smell of wilderness is many times more powerful if it is earned through physical achievement, if it comes at the end of a long and fatiguing trip for which vigorous good health is necessary. Practically speaking, this means that no one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.
Throughout history, human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonize-destroy-move on.
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