Our impact on every square mile of the earth’s biosphere, that thin zone on the planet’s surface in which the conditions for life are ideal, has been so great that we must give up the old notion of preserving nature in its pristine form. That, however, does not mean that we must give up on nature altogether.
Concepts of wilderness are modern and colonial in any case, erasing eons of stewardship by people and the role of Indigenous people in knowing and caring for a place in relationship with its network of beings.
