Ecosystem Notes #4: Wilderness
Social Leadership Daily - Day #828
What is the meaning of ‘wilderness’? Beyond sight, beyond control? Beyond rules? Is it a feature of the physical landscape alone, or something to do with the state of normality or predictability within it
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Can the familiar become wilderness, as with my garden, that becomes ‘wild’ if neglected? Or does wilderness have to be inherently beyond control, or beyond the familiar?
Must a space to be green to be wild, or can the city include wilderness, and if so, does this differ from simple dereliction? Is wilderness found in poverty, or is it possible that in the wealthiest suburbs we can find a wilderness of morality or truth?
Our relationship with wilderness is complex: sometimes feared, sometimes explored, representing the ‘beyond’. Beyond safety, beyond control, beyond ‘self’.
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Perhaps the term 'feral' is more accurate than 'wild' here: "Can the familiar become wilderness, as with my garden, that becomes ‘wild’ if neglected?