There are lots of beautiful places left in the world, but eventually they will get ruined by tourism and corruption of the resources these places have. Hopefully Prince William Sound will remain spectacularly beautiful simply because of the inhospitable weather and difficult access.
That is why we have national parks and comparable preserves. Competently planned and administered (key phrase), they withstand the ravages of unbridled tourism quite well. Difficult access helps a lot, as well.
Not to stray too far into that cess pool that starts with "P" and ends with "olitics", but even the parks and preserves are often under intense pressure. You say "difficult access", and someone else will say "we need to build a new road".
I've mostly poked some very gentle humor at the "civilization" discussion on another thread. But getting serious for a moment, I think one mark of a modern civilized society is the preservation of a few scraps of beautiful and wild areas. Enough of the population of a civilized society needs to agree that leaving some wildlands are important for future generations, or else Am_Fear_Liath Mor's comment that
"eventually they will get ruined by tourism and corruption of the resources these places have" will come true for every place. I hope people think about that.
Now I will get off my soap box, and return you to your regular programing.