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華萊’’斯’’’
(WALLACE STEGNER)
’’’’環境’’’
The Wilderness Idea
我們’爲’個民族’’永遠失’’種’’’’’我們讓’’’’’’’區’毀’
華萊’’斯’’’(1909’
)生’’瓦’畢’’’’’學’’’個’産’’’’’’部’說及’種’樣’’虛’’’’’’’說曾’獲普’’獎’’國圖’獎’’’’虛’’’’’’部反’’對’’’’部’熱’’’(’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’)’’’’’’環境’’’’’文’’’’’’’(1969)’
’’我’’爲之’’’’’’’’’’環境’’’’它本身’’’種資源’’爲’種’’’’精’’資源’它對’重實際’’’’顯’’分’’’’不’任’用推’機’’移動’’’對’們都’’顯’難’’解’
我’爲’’’’環境’’’’’’該’’有’’我們’’’’成’當’它塑’’我們’爲’個民族’歷’’’’
我們’爲’個民族’’永遠失’’種’’’’’我們讓’’’’’’’區’毀’’’讓最’’原’森’變成’堆’環’’’塑膠煙盒’’’我們把野生動’’剩’’’種類’’動’園’’’滅絕’’’我們污’最’’潔’’’’’污最’’’澈溪’’把我們’公路’’’最’’寧’區域’’’’國’’’’’國’裏’’’躲不’噪音’’’’’’體’’機動車’棄’’’樣’我們’’’’有機’讓’’’’’’’’’’’成爲由樹木’’石’’’組成’環境’’部分’成爲’’動’’’’’成爲’’’’’部分而’有資’屬’’’’’失’’剩’’’’’’區’我們’’’’’’考’休’’’’勢必’’’’我們機械’’白蟻’’生’’徹’投’“’妙’’’’”’完’由’控’’環境’我們需’’’’’’’區’’’有’’’’種’樣’’’’’區’’爲我們’爲’個民族’’’正’’著’’’戰’成’’’提醒我們’證實’’’’區仍’’’有’’我們’精’健’’’’我們’’’中’未’足’間’當我們’輕’’它對我們有’’’爲它’’’假期’休’’’暫’’醒’’我們瘋’’生’’當我們’邁’’它對我們’分重’’僅’’爲它’’’’’’’’說’僅僅’爲’’’’重’’
’註’
. . . What I
want to speak for is. . . the wilderness idea, which is a resource in itself.
Being an intangible and spiritual resource, it will seem mystical to the
practical-minded－but
then anything that cannot be moved by a bulldozer is likely to seem mystical to
them.
I want to
speak for the wilderness idea as something that has helped form our character
and that has certainly shaped our history as a people....
Something
will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be
destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books
and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild
species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty
the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence,
so that never again will Americans be free in their own country from the noise,
the exhausts, the stink of human and automotive waste. And so that never again
can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and
individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil,
brother to the other animals, part of the natural world and competent to belong
in it. Without any remaining wilderness we are committed wholly, without chance
for even momentary reflection and rest, to a headlong drive into our
technological termite-life, the Brave New World of a completely man-controlled
environment. We need wilderness preserved－as
much of it as is still left, and as many kinds－because
it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed. The
reminder and the reassurance that it is still there is good for our spiritual
health even if we never once in ten years set foot in it. It is good for us when
we are young, because of the incomparable sanity it can bring briefly, as
vacation and rest. into our in-sane lives. It is important to us when we are old
simply because it is there－important,
that is, simply as idea.
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