Wilderness in the Circumpolar North: Searching for Compatibility in Ecological, Traditional, and Ecotourism Values

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United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 2002 - 143 pages

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Page 5 - In short, a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it.
Page 70 - Inupiaq values; knowledge of language; sharing; respect for others; cooperation; respect for Elders; love for children; hard work; knowledge of family tree; avoidance of conflict; respect for nature; spirituality; humor; family roles; hunter success; domestic skills; humility; and responsibility to tribe.
Page 105 - American frontier is, that it lies at the hither edge of free land. In the census reports it is treated as the margin of that settlement which has a density of two or more to the square mile.
Page 1 - Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern who has lost his rootage in the land assumes that he has already discovered what is important; it is such who prate of empires, political or economic, that will last a thousand years. It is only the scholar who appreciates that all history consists of successive excursions...
Page 117 - Millions of items of the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind— without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.
Page 117 - At the experiential level interest-excitement is the feeling of being engaged, caught-up, fascinated, curious. There is a feeling of wanting to investigate, become involved, or extend or expand the self by incorporating new information and having new experiences with the person or object that has stimulated the interest. In intense interest or excitement the person feels animated and enlivened. It is this enlivenment that guarantees the association between interest and cognitive or motor activity....
Page 70 - Every Inupiaq is responsible to all other Inupiat for the survival of our cultural spirit, and the values and traditions through which it survives. Through our extended family, we retain, teach, and live our Inupiaq way.
Page 119 - D, Diener E, Schwarz N, eds. Well-being. The Foundations of Hedonic Psychology. New York: Russel Sage Foundations: 61-84.

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