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The thing civilization keeps trying to pave over, and keeps growing through the cracks.
means The quality of being wild — untamed, uncultivated, free from human control, whether in nature, behavior, or spirit.
from From Old English 'wilde,' meaning untamed or uncultivated, shared across the Germanic languages (German 'wild,' Dutch 'wild'). The '-ness' suffix is the old English machine for turning an adjective into a state of being, so 'wildness' is simply 'the condition of being wild.' The deeper root is uncertain, but it may be related to a word for 'wood' or 'forest' — the untamed place beyond the cleared field, where things grew as they pleased.
- thoreau's line
- In wildness is the preservation of the world.
- not wilderness
- Wildness is a quality, not a place.
- in cities
- Peregrine falcons nest on skyscrapers, hunting pigeons.
- feral fast
- Domestic animals revert to wild within generations.
- rewilding
- Reintroduced wolves reshaped Yellowstone's rivers.
amazon rainforest — 10 million square kilometers of untamed jungle in south america with 390 billion individual trees
serengeti migration — 2 million wildebeest and zebras crossing tanzania and kenya in annual unpredictable patterns
chernobyl exclusion zone — 2,600 square kilometers in ukraine where nature reclaimed human infrastructure after 1986