tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866329821725336882.post6833271983344428579..comments2010-03-08T12:32:50.337-08:00Comments on 21st Century Conservation Values: Place myths and imagined histories: the restoration of the Scottish HighlandsValueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12333758338929950376noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866329821725336882.post-10017816122245554132010-03-05T08:34:24.477-08:002010-03-05T08:34:24.477-08:00To keep being told that "wilderness" her...To keep being told that "wilderness" here and there is not really wild makes me depressed. But then values come into picture again: why do we value wilderness more than those touched by man? <br /><br />The use of the phrase "touched by man" suddenly put an idea in my mind--perhaps we obsess over wilderness for the same reason that some men obsess over virgins.<br /><br />Or is it because we value simplicity? Complex history is exhausting to process. Different storytellers, looking from different angles, don't paint the same picture. All that back-and-forth makes an ecological baseline hard to choose. "Give us a vision of 'the pristine state' to aim for; that makes it easy."Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11089802342042516892noreply@blogger.com