Crius Anonymous Remailer proclaimed:
> On Thurs, Jun 1 2006 8:28 am, R. Lander wrote:
>
> << In the lower 48 states, there's no real frontier left. We
> don't need more machines, noise and trail(er) trash invading the
> last wild, quiet places. Be happy with all the trails you've
> got. If you find those trails overcrowded, blame human
> overbreeding, not environmentalism. >>
>
> Good post but the usual suspects are reacting the usual way. If
> all the douchebags who take wilderness for granted would read
> books like Bill McKibben's "The End Of Nature" (1989) there
> might be some hope. This issue goes well beyond drunk wheelers
> trashing trails. There is a dangerous psychological disconnect
> between people and nature in rich nations. They have forgotten
> where "it" all comes from, and it's not a factory or a bank.
>
> http://www.billmckibben.com/books.html
>
> N.C.
>

Yawn. So the answer apparently is to rope off all remaining "nature"
and preserve it as the private playground for a privileged few.

Or create a culture of "natural foods", "natural living", etc. ignoring
that mother nature is a ruthless fickle psychotic murdering bitch.
Hurricanes are natural, volcanos are natural, tornados are natural,
comets crashing into planets and wiping all self-styled intelligent life
is natural, supernovas are natural.

Possibly some folks who just like to get off paved roads a few miles do
it just to get away from the bobbleheaded ratchet jawers prattling on
about some mystical and non-existent inherent connection between humans
and nature as if it were at all new for the past billions of years or so.