Director, Environmental Studies
Professor of English

Study Questions
Daniel G. Payne, Voices in the Wilderness: American Nature Writing and Environmental Politics.
Hanover , N.H. : University Press of New England , 1996.

CONCLUSION

1. What does Payne say is needed for environmental writers and advocates to be effective? What should be avoided? What is his view of radical environmentalism? Do you agree with his analysis and assessment? How might someone criticize it? (168-169 and 171-172 and 174)

2. What does he see as the role of environmental writers in effecting environmental reform? What recent developments have affected that role? (168-170) Do you think that is the proper role for an environmental writer? What other roles do you think are appropriate and important?

3. What are the potential hazards of the increasing reliance on the legal system? (170-171)

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