- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Into the Wildness
- 1 Wildfire News
- 2 Conundrum and Continuum
- 3 No Word
- 4 The Edge of Anomaly
- 5 Order versus Wildness
- 6 Biomimicry
- 7 Notes on “Up at the Basin”
- 8 Listening to the Forest
- 9 The Working Wilderness
- 10 The Hummingbird and the Red Cap
- 11 Losing Wildness for the Sake of Wilderness
- 12 Inhabiting the Alaskan Wild
- 13 Wilderness in Four Parts, or Why We Cannot Mention My Great-Grandfather’s Name
- 14 Wild Black Margins
- 15 Healing the Urban Wild
- 16 Building the Civilized Wild
- 17 Cultivating the Wild on Chicago’s South Side
- 18 Toward an Urban Practice of the Wild
- 19 The Whiskered God of Filth
- 20 The Akiing Ethic
- 21 On the Wild Edge in Iceland
- 22 The Story Isn’t Over
- 23 Cultivating the Wild
- 24 Earth Island
- Epilogue Wild Partnership
- Permissions
- About the Contributors
- Index
Into the Wildness
Into the Wildness
- Chapter:
- (p.1) Introduction Into the Wildness
- Source:
- Wildness
- Author(s):
Gavin Van Horn
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
I am standing a few feet off the edge of a manmade canal. A great blue heron is frozen in contemplation of the shallow waters around his ankles. Cottonwood and ash trees display the toothy signs of beaver. Further up the canal, a pair of coyotes readies for dusk. I graze the tips of my fingers across the ivory bloom of an unassuming flower, thinking of the persistence of the land’s memory and how it may feed our future....
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Into the Wildness
- 1 Wildfire News
- 2 Conundrum and Continuum
- 3 No Word
- 4 The Edge of Anomaly
- 5 Order versus Wildness
- 6 Biomimicry
- 7 Notes on “Up at the Basin”
- 8 Listening to the Forest
- 9 The Working Wilderness
- 10 The Hummingbird and the Red Cap
- 11 Losing Wildness for the Sake of Wilderness
- 12 Inhabiting the Alaskan Wild
- 13 Wilderness in Four Parts, or Why We Cannot Mention My Great-Grandfather’s Name
- 14 Wild Black Margins
- 15 Healing the Urban Wild
- 16 Building the Civilized Wild
- 17 Cultivating the Wild on Chicago’s South Side
- 18 Toward an Urban Practice of the Wild
- 19 The Whiskered God of Filth
- 20 The Akiing Ethic
- 21 On the Wild Edge in Iceland
- 22 The Story Isn’t Over
- 23 Cultivating the Wild
- 24 Earth Island
- Epilogue Wild Partnership
- Permissions
- About the Contributors
- Index
