http://rewilding.org/rewildit/9/around-the-campfire-wilderness-areas-and-humannature-dualism/ Wilderness and Wildlife Conservation Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:34:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://rewilding.org/rewildit/9/around-the-campfire-wilderness-areas-and-humannature-dualism/comment-page-1/#comment-72 Al Farthing Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:14:48 +0000 http://rewilding.org/rewildit/9/around-the-campfire-wilderness-areas-and-humannature-dualism/#comment-72 Our track record so far looks incredibly bad--- one might be tempted to despairingly conclude that I am part of an alien species that cares nothing for its own home (the planet) and that we well deserve to be eliminated from the scene, before the scene itself is soiled beyond repair. It is not my nature to be gloomy --- but I am tempted. Raised in near wilderness (Alberta, near the dinosaur excavations), I mourn the quiet- empty landscape that as a kid I found so boring. Now that I am a little saner (took nearly 70 years) I see that it is the wilderness which is endlessly exciting, and the cities are not just boring but crazy-making. Did our genes get mixed up with some ant species somewhere? What we call civilization is NOT really us. Our track record so far looks incredibly bad— one might be tempted to despairingly conclude that I am part of an alien species that cares nothing for its own home (the planet) and that we well deserve to be eliminated from the scene, before the scene itself is soiled beyond repair.
It is not my nature to be gloomy — but I am tempted.
Raised in near wilderness (Alberta, near the dinosaur excavations), I mourn the quiet- empty landscape that as a kid I found so boring. Now that I am a little saner (took nearly 70 years) I see that it is the wilderness which is endlessly exciting, and the cities are not just boring but crazy-making.
Did our genes get mixed up with some ant species somewhere? What we call civilization is NOT really us.

]]> http://rewilding.org/rewildit/9/around-the-campfire-wilderness-areas-and-humannature-dualism/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Alan Gregory Sun, 28 Jan 2007 01:53:19 +0000 http://rewilding.org/rewildit/9/around-the-campfire-wilderness-areas-and-humannature-dualism/#comment-35 Dave, in my daily travels around the old, worn-out anthracite coal region of northeastern Pennsylvania, the very idea of "wildness" seems as far away as the Moon. Or President Bush's long-forgotten "mission to Mars" photo op. Conservationists have much work to do when a co-worker tells me that he'd never take his kids out to the nearest state park until it has been "developed." There might be snakes, he pointed out. Dave, in my daily travels around the old, worn-out anthracite coal region of northeastern Pennsylvania, the very idea of “wildness” seems as far away as the Moon. Or President Bush’s long-forgotten “mission to Mars” photo op. Conservationists have much work to do when a co-worker tells me that he’d never take his kids out to the nearest state park until it has been “developed.” There might be snakes, he pointed out.

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