Desert Solitaire Analysis
In 2008, 4, 425, 314 visited the beautiful Grand Canyon. Which means on average, 6,500 cars enter this park on a typical summer day. There were 56,000 beautiful air tours shown at the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon has been preserved and protected by the U.S. National Park Service, and has always and will be open to the public. In the novel, Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey, Abbey worked as a ranger for the United States National Park Service at the Arches National Monument. While he works and lives in southern Utah, Abbey comes across his disgust with industrial tourism as a poor attempt to understand nature and as an insulting/terrible force to the built-in value of nature. However, industrial tourism seems to be the only way for some people
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To be in its presence alone is refreshing. While many drive their car through the canyon and other natural sights, it is simply a mode of transportation and does not only define your experience with nature. Personally, I have never been to the Grand Canyon, and if I were to go, I would probably drive through some locations of the park rather than walk, especially in that heat. But I still believe I would have a life changing experience and would have interacted with an unusual form of nature. Abbey may see this as too "industrial" to be experiencing the value of nature, sometimes it may be the only realistic way because of time, useful things, knowledge, and physical ability. Not all of us have big hiking and camping knowledge, the ability to last in a desert, or the legs to carry us through miles of traveling. But we have the mind and soul to experience it. We could be at Disney World, but instead we're trying to experience the value of nature, and this purpose should be valued more. I do not believe that industrial tourism degrades the value of tourism to the point Abbey believes; rather it gives the average human a chance to value the nature we try to protect. Abbey argues that the presence of humans insults the value of nature through the pollution, hanging around or wasting time that seems to go with their form of tourism. However, people need to be in the presence of nature in order to form a connection with nature, and this I believe is very important to help increase the overall protection and value of nature and the health of the
To be in its presence alone is refreshing. While many drive their car through the canyon and other natural sights, it is simply a mode of transportation and does not only define your experience with nature. Personally, I have never been to the Grand Canyon, and if I were to go, I would probably drive through some locations of the park rather than walk, especially in that heat. But I still believe I would have a life changing experience and would have interacted with an unusual form of nature. Abbey may see this as too "industrial" to be experiencing the value of nature, sometimes it may be the only realistic way because of time, useful things, knowledge, and physical ability. Not all of us have big hiking and camping knowledge, the ability to last in a desert, or the legs to carry us through miles of traveling. But we have the mind and soul to experience it. We could be at Disney World, but instead we're trying to experience the value of nature, and this purpose should be valued more. I do not believe that industrial tourism degrades the value of tourism to the point Abbey believes; rather it gives the average human a chance to value the nature we try to protect. Abbey argues that the presence of humans insults the value of nature through the pollution, hanging around or wasting time that seems to go with their form of tourism. However, people need to be in the presence of nature in order to form a connection with nature, and this I believe is very important to help increase the overall protection and value of nature and the health of the