Whether referring to a place, a nonhuman animal or plant, or a
state of mind, wild indicates autonomy and agency, a will to be, a
unique expression of life. Yet two contrasting ideas about wild
nature permeate contemporary discussions: either that nature is
most wild in the absence of a defiling human presence, or that
nature is completely humanized and nothing is truly wild. This book
charts a different path. Exploring how people can become attuned to
the wild community of life and also contribute to the well-being of
the wild places in which we live, work, and play, Wildness brings
together esteemed authors from a variety of landscapes, cultures,
and backgrounds to share their stories about the interdependence of
everyday human lifeways and wildness. As they show, far from being
an all or nothing proposition, wildness exists in variations and
degrees that range from cultivated soils to multigenerational
forests to sunflowers pushing through cracks in a city alley.
Spanning diverse geographies, these essays celebrate the continuum
of wildness, revealing the many ways in which human communities can
nurture, adapt to, and thrive alongside their wild nonhuman kin.
From the contoured lands of Wisconsin's Driftless region to remote
Alaska, from the amazing adaptations of animals and plants living
in the concrete jungle to indigenous lands and harvest ceremonies,
from backyards to reclaimed urban industrial sites, from microcosms
to bioregions and atmospheres, manifestations of wildness are
everywhere. With this book, we gain insight into what wildness is
and could be, as well as how it might be recovered in our lives and
with it, how we might unearth a more profound, wilder understanding
of what it means to be human.
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