Environmental preservation

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Environmental preservation is the strict setting aside of natural resources for their aesthetic value rather than letting them be modified for economic gain.[1]

John Muir, an early American conservationist, is regarded as a preservationist. Apart from its use as a pejorative term for environmentalists "preservation" or "preservationist" in the context of conservation or environmentalism is now rarely used.

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  1. ^ Cunningham, William P.; et al. (1998). Environmental encyclopedia. Gale Research. ISBN 081039314X. 


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