"The Abstract Wild"

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This paper explains that Jack Turner?s ?The Abstract Wild?, eight provocatively written essays, reviews the ways in which the wilderness has been interceded, micromanaged and, in effect, nearly taken out of existence. The author points out that Turner feels humans need to spend time with the wilderness because the actual time they have spent with this very wilderness is rare; therefore, they do not know how to preserve the wilderness. This paper relates that Jack Turner, in ?The Abstract Wild?, defines wild as being natural; anything and everything, which stands in its natural form and away from development, is wild.

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"This throwing of the spotlight on the wild and his related experience sieved out the special emotions he had once felt being created within him. It is here that Jack Turner has made his point, which deals with the effect of publicity on wilderness. From this story, one conclusion regarding his theory can be drawn. Had he not been involved in revealing his bond and connection either through pictures or through conversations, he would have encountered the equally intense or similar emotions inside him on his second visit."

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