Salvation: -the act of saving or protecting from harm, risk, loss, destruction, etc.
-the act of preserving or the state of being preserved from harm.
wildness: -growing or produced without cultivation or the care of humans.
When Aldo Leopold quoted Thoreau in "Thinking Like a Mounain" I beleive he meant that every living thing in the wilderness has a critical importance in protecting earth. Many times humans feel instant protection when they exterminate immediate threats of wild animals, bugs, and critters, but what we may not see is the destruction it causes in the long run... loss of habitat, food, and eventually natural disasters. This is what happens with wilderness interrupted by humans and their deforestation, extermination of bug and animals, poaching, over cultivization, over fishing, etc. Although, according to Thoreau and Leopold, with a wilderness uninterrupted by humans ecosystems become strong with an increased capacity of self-renewal. The natural ebb and flow that was intended can take place meaning healthy lakes, rivers, ponds, forests, deserts, plains, mountains, and oceans. I agree with the fact that the wilderness should remain wild because in it holds the health of the whole world................................
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