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    It is not the case that As wilderness becomes increasingly rare, the chance of human lives and values being transformed through interactions with nature is reduced

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    • 1.Transformative encounters with nature occur through cultivated attention and aesthetic perception, not merely through physical proximity to wilderness.
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    • 2.Thoreau's concept of 'wildness' in Walden locates transformative value in a quality of experience accessible in local, degraded, or semi-wild landscapes.
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    • 3.Therefore, the reduction of designated wilderness does not proportionally reduce the availability of transformative nature experiences.
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    • 1.The argument presupposes a Romantic model of transformation through sublime wilderness, ignoring that urban natures, ecological restoration, and managed landscapes also generate profound value shifts.
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    • 2.Environmental philosophers like Baird Callicott and Paul Gobster have documented transformative moral development arising from cultivated engagement with ordinary or degraded ecosystems.
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    • 1.Transformation of values and life-orientation can result from interactions with nature
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    • 2.People's exposure to wild things in their natural state has become reduced as wilderness becomes rarer
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