As a society, we have rules and regulations to order our daily lives, and when something does not fit into this structure we put it within a frame that we are familiar with. This is the same when it comes to the concept of wilderness. We have put this ideal place called wilderness on a pedestal, especially as our society becomes more urbanized, creating national parks and historical landscape to protect them from encroaching development with the idea that we need to protect them from ourselves. The problem with this concept is it often privileges one type of landscape over others, and creates a divide between the human and natural world. We should not be seeing ourselves as separate from the landscape but a part of it. Nature is not pure and untouched and not all that humans create is destructive. We need to see ourselves as and single ecosystem where humans and nature coexist.
