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== ''Wilderness and the American Mind'' ==

Nash's study in this book<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3PJZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=20oNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4335,743719&dq=roderick-nash+raft&hl=en|title=Parks Subject of New Special|date=March 7, 1981|work=[[Waycross Journal-Herald]]|page=P5|accessdate=14 August 2011}}</ref> concerns the attitude of Americans' toward the idea of wilderness. He discusses the different attitudes that American's have had toward nature since [[colonization]] and the changing uses and definitions of 'wilderness' in that context. Specifically, Nash describes the evolution of American wilderness conception through Transcendentalism, Primitivism, Preservationism, to Conservationism.<ref name="Wilderness and the American Mind, Nash 1973">{{cite book| title=Wilderness and the American Mind| edition=2nd rev| date=1973| first1=Roderick Frazier| last1=Nash| publisher=Yale UP| isbn=978-0300016499}}</ref> Nash states that if wilderness is to survive, we must, paradoxically, manage wilderness – at the very least, our behavior towards the wilderness must be managed.

== Personal Philosophy ==

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*[https://books.google.com/books/about/Wilderness_and_the_American_Mind.html?id=q4IxNWXBqOsC ''Wilderness and the American Mind''] (1967).<ref>{{cite book |title=Wilderness and the American Mind |publisher=Yale University Press; 4th edition (September 1, 2001) |isbn=978-0-300-09122-9 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/wildernessameric00nash_0 }}</ref>

*''The American Environment: Readings in the History of Conservation'' (1968).

*''The Call of the Wild 1900–1916''<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=00sYwVRrPcoC |title=The call of the wild: 1900-1916 - Roderick Nash - Google Boeken |publisher=Books.google.com |dateisbn=9780807605516 |accessdate=2014-01-03|last1=Nash |first1=Roderick |year=1970 }}</ref> (1970).

*''Environment and Americans: The Problem of Priorities'' (1972).

*''The Big Drops: Ten Legendary Rapids'' (1978). Co-authored with Robert O. Collins