Some thoughts on Wilderness, Wildness, and Weirdness
By: Cat Normoyle
Wilderness is often romanticized. It is referred to as nature; mother earth. It is natural and beautiful—untamed, unmanaged, unlabeled, uncategorized, untouched, unrestored, yet often what we are actually referring to is some sort of colonized version of wildness. It is a controlled, picturesque, and not untamed wildness, in fact. Wildness is untamed; still thought of […]
