Nondegradation and the Wilderness Concept: Interpreting the Wilderness Act

Poetry lovers do not turn to the United States Statutes at Large looking for new verses to savor. For all their legal majesty, the words of the law are almost without exception dry and precise, intentionally drained of all possible imprecision. So what are we to make of this, from the Wilderness Act of 1964 (U.S. Public Law 88-577)?