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# Rambunctious Garden Notes
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## <ins><strong>Chapter 1 Notes</strong></ins>: Weeding the Jungle
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- Importance of conservation
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- Many centuries of deforestation
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- Nature is not far away and the sentiment that it is far away is not healthy
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- Is pristine wilderness desirable?
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- What is defined as pristine?
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- By definition, all living things interact with their surroundings.
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- Why is it a bad thing when people do it?
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- Is it just an underlying sentiment of self-hatred?
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- The word rambunctious is important. Carefully managed forests with bare floors are offten barren of wildlife.
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## <ins><strong>Chapter 2 Notes</strong></ins>: Weeding the Jungle
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- Towns and fields had been preferable in Europe for centuries. Since at least the middle ages, much of Europe was deforrested.
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- "It wasn't until societies attained a little safety, prosperity, and leisure that nature in its wildest aspect began to seem rather romantic" (Marris, 18). Make people as rich as possible as fast as possible.
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- As far as I can tell, industrialization and free markets are the best way to do this.
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- When people earn $5k net GDP per year, they are able to make long-term plans for the future. Hence, why national parks emerge once society established. |