the impetus to slow some profiteering. Nash also talks of how wilderness teaches us the value of humility. The problem is that humanity does not want to be humbled. Humans are a proud species who will do anything to avoid being humbled. To this end, we have ripped the wildness from the wilderness and removed all that causes any threat to our existence. Nash believes that humankind has two choices in the next 1,000 years. We can "trash the planet into a wasteland" or adopt a plan to distill the world's population in 500 "islands" while allowing wilderness to flourish around us. Bibliography Wilderness and the American Mind (1967). The American Environment: Readings in the History of Conservation (1968). The Call of the Wild 1900–1916 (1970). Environment and Americans: The Problem of Priorities (1972). The Big Drops: Ten Legendary Rapids (1978). Co-authored with Robert O. Collins The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics (1989). American Environmentalism: Readings in Conservation History (1990). The Nervous Generation: American Thought, 1917–1930 (1990). Also by Nash, Roderick: From These Beginnings: A Biographical Approach to American History, Volume I and II. References Harvard University alumni 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Environmental historians Living people Year of birth missing (living people) University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni University of California, Santa Barbara faculty American non-fiction environmental writers Environmental studies scholars Activists from California American male non-fiction writers