“The removal of Indians to create an ‘uninhabited wilderness’ – uninhabited as never before in the human history of the place – reminds us just how invented, just how constructed, the American wilderness really is…there is nothing natural about the concept of wilderness. It is entirely a creation of the culture that holds it dear” (Cronon, 79).

“As I drew still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nation who in primeval years lived under these heavens, and their small implements of war and hunting were brought to the light of this modern day. They lay mingled with other natural stones, some of which bore the marks of having been burned by Indian fires, and some by the sun, and also bits of pottery and glass brought hither by the the recent cultivators of the soil. When my hoe tinked against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded an instant and immeasurable crop” (Thoreau, 172).