“In wildness is the preservation of the world.”
Henry David Thoreau book Walking
Source: Walking (June 1862)
“The wild world is the human world.”
"The Wisdom of Wilderness" in LIFE (22 December 1967)
Context: The wild world is the human world. Having evolved in it for millions of centuries, we are not far removed by a cloth of civilization. It is packed into our genes. In fact, the more power-driven, complex and delicate our civilization becomes, the more likelihood arises that a collapse will force us back to wildness. There is in wildness a natural wisdom that shapes all Earth's experiments with life. Can we tap this wisdom without experiencing the agony of reverting to wildness? Can we combine it with intellectual developments of which we feel so proud, use it to redirect our modern trends before they lead to a worse breakdown than past civilizations have experienced? I believe we can, and that to do so we must learn from the primitive.
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Barry Gifford book Wild at Heart
Source: Wild at Heart
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Ken Kesey (1935–2001) novelist
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Source: The Liars' Club
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