Self-willed land - advocacy for wild land & nature

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ARTICLES Complete list of articles WILDLAND Wildland Reports and Presentations, Work Reports & Designs WILD Europe Wildland Books Wildland Filmography What is Wildland? Ancient Woodland ssenredliW Conservation Speak Heathland MADNESS Treeless Forests PERMACULTURE Learn about Permaculture	True wilderness IS A LAND THAT HAS SUPREME NATURALNESS AND IS FREE OF ANY HUMAN CONTROL It is a self-willed land because plants and animals can thrive there, in their own unfettered communities 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 natural vegetation, natural systems, natural processes, ecological function, trophic occupancy, wild nature, advocacy for wild land & nature, self-willed land, wilderness
	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
	The latest articles are:
Travelogue - ten weeks in North America in 2003	The loss of a great activist against dewilding, May 2018 NEW	Conservation biology and the repair of our damaged and degraded ecosystems, Apr 2018	More zombie ideas in ecology, Mar 2018
SELF-WILLED LAND the Manifesto	The continuing destruction of our native trophic pyramid, Feb 2018	Rewiring an emptied food web, Jan 2018	Civilisation, artifice, domination, autonomy – divining a moral ethic for wild nature, Dec 2017

	Last updated 25 May 2018 - This article is a tribute to Neil Fitzmaurice, who died in mid-April