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ARTICLES WILDLAND Wildland Reports and Presentations, Work Reports & Designs PERMACULTURE |
No where has been left untouched by people in the humanization of our land, leaving behind a simplified ecology that has lost most of its wild heritage. Wilderness and wildland should be important to us. If you wish to learn more about this, read some of the articles and learn how giving land back to wild nature would make some of Britain's landscapes self-willed again Self-willed land for its own sake will only exist in Britain if land is held inalienably in the public good and that legislation exists to define its natural wild character, and thus the limits to human intervention
Mark Fisher -
mark.fisher@self-willed-land.org.uk |
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WILD - is Willed, Will'd (or self-willed) in opposition to those (whether men or beasts) who are tamed or subdued (by reason or otherwise) to the will of others or of Societies - John Horne Tooke 1805 ‘Wild’ is the participle past of ‘to will’; a ‘wild’ horse is a ‘willed’ or self-willed horse, one that has been never tamed or taught to submit its will to the will of another; and so with a man - Richard Chenevix Trench 1853 WILD, self-willed, violent, untamed, uncivilised, savage, desert - Walter Skeat 1888 Wilderness then means "self-willed-land" or "self-willed-place" with an emphasis upon its own intrinsic volition - Jay Vest 1985 A place is wild when its order is created according to its own principles of organization—when it is self-willed land - Jack Turner 1996 |
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Science not politics should govern our acceptance of wolves, November 2024 |
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| The scientific wilderness, October 2024 | A natural life – the self-will of existence, Aug 2024 | An intolerable logic – trading the life of one species for another, July 2024 | |
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Last updated 31 May 2025 -New article on the singular species diversity of undisturbed ancient woodland |
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