ENV100H1 Study Guide - Henry David Thoreau, Theodore Roosevelt, Teleology

• School: UTSG
• Department: School of Environment
• Course: ENV100H1
• Professor: Stephen Scharper

Document Summary

Animals, food, & env: hidden cost of factory farms. Rachel york-bridgers, teaching and learning @ oise & school for env at u of t. Walking essay--> walking 4 hours/day, w/o teleological purpose. Love of wild spaces - founder of sierra club, worked w/ teddy roosevelt, fought to preserve a park. T: in wildness is the preservation of the world wildness, not wilderness (an untamedness) Wildness seeks out life; we tame it or only see artifices of human hand and don"t see. Propagated transformative environmental world view: earth is not a resource to be harvested, but treasure to be preserved. Revered and despised by americans from opposing parties. Writes in 20th century in his scribble-space". Mechanical mind (20"s) - right eye blinded temporarily by metal file. Changes worldview as he spends his time in blindness fantasizing about seeing nature. Switches out of profession and leaves hometown for any place that is wild the mountains are calling .