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Great American Wilderness

At first, the idea of removing all human-made objects from the wilderness sounds like the charitable thing to do. It’s the way things should be, right? In actuality, this plan doesn’t hold as much merit as originally thought. Although it may be healthy for the environment to some extent, there is something else that needs to be considered. It is hard to decipher whether or not something should be deemed “unnatural.” The American Indians, as well as their structures, were able to co-exist serenely with their wilderness surroundings. Society should be more worried about something’s effects on its surroundings as opposed to assuming because it is man-made, it must be given the name “unnatural”. If there is a negative result on the environment from something a human made, only then should it be termed as “unnatural”.
Before there were cities and cars, factories and pollution, mass production and waste, there were people and nature. The Native Americans roamed the co...

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