No Man’s Garden
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NO MAN’S GARDEN:
Thoreau and A New Vision for Civilization and Nature
by Daniel B. Botkin
Island Press; 1ST edition (October 1, 2000)
ISBN: 1559634650
Read an excerpt from No Man’s Garden
Thoreau was a surveyor and the inventor of the modern pencil. He approached nature in part as an engineer and practical man would, and in part because of the deep meaning that nature had for him, lifting his spirits, so to speak. One of his most famous quotes is “In wildness is the preservation of the world.” This is often misinterpreted — by both pro- and anti-environmentalists — to think that Thoreau meant that most of the world should be turned back into wilderness. Not at all. For Thoreau, wildness was a state of mind, while wilderness was a place. He sought the sense of wildness — of nature — and he could obtain that with an afternoon’s walk in the woods near Concord, Massachusetts or, as he put it, from the swamp by the edge of town. Once he wrote “I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw; not that I was hungry then, except for that wildness he represented.” He didn’t mean this literally; he meant that he wanted to feel the sense of wildness within himself.
No Man’s Garden presents a vital challenge to the assumptions and conventional wisdom of environmentalism, and will be must reading for anyone interested in developing a deeper understanding of interactions between humans and nature.
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