Is the Wilderness Restorative or Idealized?
by Candice Gaukel Andrews | August 11th, 2009 | Comments (8)
topic: Eco Travel, Green Living | tags: American wildnernesses, back-to-the-earth movement, Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, Earth Day, Henry David Thoreau, myth, outdoors, restorative, tonic of wildness, Walden, wilderness
The tonic of wildness. ©Candice Gaukel Andrews.
“We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.” — Henry David Thoreau
