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       Re: #10: First Wilderness
       By: Ahmed_A Date: March 1, 2019, 1:31 am
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       I will answer Sof's question about lasting impacts about the
       attitude toward a location/region. I think that this is what
       makes environmental history so fundamental in the understanding
       of a culture; it studies the relation between nature and humans
       over time. In this case, the idea of expanding the colonies led
       to the idea of freedom and space to be associated with going
       West, but what is more interesting is that such association
       resonated in the American culture even centuries after. This is
       not a mystery to me as much as an insightful discovery. It is a
       great example of how nature unconsciously affects our ideas. A
       teenager moving to LA in the pursuit for freedom would not
       compare their situation to that of a Colonial farmer from the
       1800s, and yet there is a connection there. I think that the
       connection lies in the nature of Western land being vast and
       empty.
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