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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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