{"id":621,"date":"2007-06-07T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2007\/06\/philosophy-thoreau-and-us-where-is-wildness\/"},"modified":"2007-06-07T21:15:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T21:15:00","slug":"philosophy-thoreau-and-us-where-is-wildness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2007\/06\/philosophy-thoreau-and-us-where-is-wildness.html","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy: Thoreau and us, where is Wildness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:100%\">Henry David Thoreau famously wrote, \u201cin Wildness is the preservation of the World.\u201d[1] Thoreau, a lifelong New Englander, pointed West when he spoke of the Wildness in which our preservation could be found.<span> <\/span>Yet now, scarcely 100 years hence, America\u2019s great destiny is manifest and Wildness must be rediscovered.<span> <\/span>But where?<span> <\/span><span> <\/span>No longer, it would seem, is there a land \u2018out there\u2019 to which we may point to as a reminder of <i>who we are<\/i>, as natural beings living <i>in<\/i> a world of culture.<\/span> <\/p>\n<div><!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->\n<hr align=\"left\" width=\"33%\"> <!--[endif]--> \n<div>\n<p class=\"MsoFootnoteText\">[1]<span style=\"font-family:Arial\"> Walking, p. 37.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoFootnoteText\">\n<\/p><p>This was the first paragraph of a paper I wrote last winter titled, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtfreethinkers.org\/In%20Relationship%20is%20the%20Preservation%20of%20the%20World.pdf\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">In Relationship is the Preservation of the World.<\/a>\u201d  It was hastily and thus poorly written, but many of the ideas will be coming through in my current work.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtfreethinkers.org\/WHO%20AM%20I-Sarte%20and%20Subjectivity.pdf\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Here is my Sartre Paper<\/a> (equally hasty).<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7907151-3199517421121172994?l=americanbuddhist.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry David Thoreau famously wrote, \u201cin Wildness is the preservation of the World.\u201d[1] Thoreau, a lifelong New Englander, pointed West when he spoke of the Wildness in which our preservation could be found. 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