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“As the Earth responds to the changes we humans have made, does it make sense to destroy ecosystems that thrive under the new conditions? As Lugo says, “This is nature’s response to what we have done to it.” Novel ecosystems may be our best hope for the future, as their components adapt to the human-dominated world using the time-tested method of natural selection. Could we hope to do any better than nature in managing and arranging our natural world for a warmer, more populous future?”
― Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World
― Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World
“The only way to really stop life from changing is to kill it.”
― Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World
― Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World
“In the United States law, federally designated wilderness is famously defined as 'an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.' One environmental ethics text defines natural like this: 'Something is natural to the extent that it is independent of human design, control, and impacts.' Definitions like this start with a basic assumption that human beings are not part of nature. They assume, in fact, that humans are the opposite of nature, that our influence makes a thing less wild or natural. And I simply reject this premise.
After many years, I have come to see the concepts of wilderness and nature as not just unscientific but damaging.”
― Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World
After many years, I have come to see the concepts of wilderness and nature as not just unscientific but damaging.”
― Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World
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