Wildness: Relations of People and Place

This book charts a different path. Exploring how people can become attuned to the wild community of life & also contribute to the well-being of the wild places in which we live, work, & play, Wildness brings together esteemed authors from a variety of landscapes, cultures, & backgrounds to share their stories about the interdependence of everyday human lifeways & wildness. As they show, far from being an all or nothing proposition, wildness exists in variations & degrees that range from cultivated soils to multigenerational forests to sunflowers pushing through cracks in a city alley. 

Spanning diverse geographies, these essays celebrate the continuum of wildness, revealing the many ways in which human communities can nurture, adapt to, & thrive alongside their wild nonhuman kin. From the contoured lands of Wisconsin's Driftless region to remote Alaska, from the amazing adaptations of animals & plants living in the concrete jungle to indigenous lands & harvest ceremonies, from backyards to reclaimed urban industrial sites, from microcosms to bioregions 4 atmospheres, manifestations of wildness are everywhere. 

With this book, we gain insight into what wildness is & could be, as well as how it might be recovered in our lives & with it, how we might unearth a more profound, wilder understanding of what it means to be human.