“One of the greatest historical ironies of Mount Desert Island was that its natural beauty was being destroyed as it was being ‘discovered’. Until the mid-nineteenth century, the idea that ‘wilderness’ could be appealing was bizarre to most people” (12). 

“Cities, suburbs, sprawl, and countryside got mixed together. One city’s suburbs bumped into suburbs from the city down the highway, but in between to each side were still a few farms. These areas, such s the one between Chicago and Milwaukee, were dubbed ‘urban corridors’. They fit together, sort of, and they didn’t, sort of. However they fit, they had one thing in common: trees, lots of trees” (50).