We need places that we do not use at all. We need the experience of leaving something alone. We need places that we forbear to change, or influence by our presence, or impose on even by our understanding; places that we accept as influence upon us, not the other way around, that we enter with the sense of pleasure, of having nothing to do there; places that we must enter in a kind of cultural nakedness, without comforts or tools, to submit rather than to conquer. We need what other ages would have called sacred groves. We need groves, anyhow, that we would treat as if they were sacred — in order, perhaps, to perceive their sanctity. denverpost/opinion/ci_26387451/promise-wilderness
Posted on: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 10:46:50 +0000
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