21W.775 | Spring 2017 | Undergraduate

Writing about Nature and Environmental Issues

Readings

Supplementary Readings

Hays, Samuel P. “Comment: The Trouble with Bill Cronon’s Wilderness.” Environmental History 1, no. 1 (1996): 29–32.

Dunlap, Thomas R. “Comment: But What Did You Go Out into the Wilderness to See?Environmental History 1, no. 1 (1996): 43–46.

Cohen, Michael P. “Comment: Resistance to Wilderness.” Environmental History 1, no. 1 (1996): 33–42.

Kolbert, Elizabeth. “Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds.” The New Yorker. February 27, 2017.

Cronon, William. “The Trouble with Wilderness: A Response.” Environmental History 1, no. 1 (1996): 47–55.

Hochman, David. “Urban Gardening: An Appleseed With Attitude.” The New York Times. May 3, 2013.

McCauley, Douglas J. “Selling Out on Nature.” Nature 443, no. 7107 (2006): 27–28.

Quammen, David. “Rethinking the Lawn: Turf Warfare in the American Suburbs.” In The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder. Scribner, 2001. ISBN: 9780743200325. [Preview with Google Books]

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