Roads and campgrounds dilute solitude rather than develop recreation

Evidence

It is clear without further discussion that mass-use involves a direct dilution of the opportunity for solitude; that when we speak of roads, campgrounds, trails, and toilets as ‘development’ of recreational resources, we speak falsely in respect of this component. Such accommodations for the crowd are not developing (in the sense of adding or creating) anything. On the contrary, they are merely water poured into the already-thin soup. — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 603

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Conserving wildness by exposing it to people destroys what it protects. — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 352; Mass recreation dilutes what it seeks, making the search self-defeating — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 576; Recreation policy should build human perception rather than build roads — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 607 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• American roads impose on the landscape without human trace, and so slip from memory. #expands (0.85) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 45