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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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The latest articles are: |
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Requiem for rewilding, Jul 2021 | What nature wants, Feb 2021 | ||
Commodification of nature, January 2021 ADDENDUM - 26 January - Why is Bramber the beaver dead? |
An axis of naturalness for treescapes, Nov 2020 | What is a Treescape? Sept 2020 | |
Last updated 8 May 2022 -New article on why an ecological approach to biology through scientific inquiry should be taught in secondary schools |