Surfing should be paradiseEvery time a new "pristine paradise"; is discovered, the first thing everyone wants to do is visit it. With their united enthusiasm in finding these "sanctuaries"; people carry the cage of society with them. Very soon it becomes necessary to erect bars to keep people out. William Tucker "Is nature too good for us?"; William Tucker's essay "Nature is too beautiful for us"; discusses the complications with the environmental movement to set aside pieces of land as wilderness. One of the main points of Tucker's argument raises the issue of preserving natural land as wilderness is that these wild paradises often conflict with people's desire to visit these paradises and experience them. Tucker uses the example of Kauai as a paradise that has been ruined by overuse and overpopulation. Tucker describes how in 1964 the Sierra Club published an article about the relatively unknown island, and in 1979 Time magazine published an article in which some local people expressed a desire to keep outsiders away. The issue of protecting paradise is a hotly debated topic currently fought by surfers. For a surfer nothing is more rewarding than the search and discovery of perfect, uncrowded waves. This notion of seeking uncrowded surfing was brought to the attention of the general public with the 1963 release of Bruce Brown's The Endless Summer. The film documented two surfers traveling around the world to exotic locations previously left unexplored by Western civilization's surfers. The images that Brown brought back to mainstream movie screens changed the lives of surfers forever. This movie changed the way surfers saw the world. Surfers were no longer confined to local coasts, but were filled with the desire to find their own paradise. Over the years many surfers have found their little piece of paradise and never left. Instead these surfers decided to spend the rest of their lives surfing the waves they initially intended to visit and experience. They never left these beaches because the waves were uncrowded and the beaches were breathtakingly beautiful. Compare this to modern industrial locations in the US like Los Angeles or San Francisco and you'll understand why surfers are constantly searching for paradise. Surfers get tired of surfing in crowded, polluted, low-wave-producing areas, so they travel.
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