Life is like a winding pathway.
Hymnal Sherwood is going two directions at once. The same people who favor rapid economic growth favor restoration of the natural environment. The Hebrew Prophet Isaiah supported the opinion of many of my fellow townsmen when he preached that the best thing for the Wilderness is to build a freeway through it wide enough to carry all the traffic of the civilized world at that time, making sure to level every mountain, raise every valley, and straighten every crooked place that gets in the way. Still there are plenty of other historically significant people who visited the wilderness and came away with less than favorable opinions of it. The Englishman John Bunyan agreed, but his was a very different wilderness.