Nature: From Howling Wilderness to the Call of the Wild (Lecture)

Presenter

David Lowenthal, Unversity College London

Publication Date

3-19-2015

Document Type

Presentation

Streaming Media

Abstract

Raw nature in Biblical tradition was the wilderness into which Adam and Eve were exiled from the Garden of Eden. Uncultivated nature long remained abhorrent to most Americans. I trace the stunning aesthetic reversion from seemly cultivation to modern adoration of untrammeled wilderness, and discuss rewilding’s troublesome ecological and social consequences.

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