Word: thoreauvian
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...opposing views of America - almost two religions - do battle in controversies like this. One is the conservationist Thoreauvian faith ("In wilderness, there is preservation of the world"), an essentially spiritual longing that comes to the sacred American landscape as to an Eden that can only be dirtied by the enterprise...