Spontaneous and unstoppable. Roger had not just loved the wild, he had been wild. Not in the austere and chastening sense I had once understood the wild to be, but natural, like a tree or river.*
Robert Macfarlane
Uncertainty prompts us to idealise the future. We tell ourselves that everything will be OK just as long as I can reach the projection of the future.**
Christopher Kayes
As an expression of Earth
seeded here,
What is your wildness?
Ongoing momentum in
slender green becoming serpentine
imagination touching reality–
The perennial you
expressed in an
eternal now.
*Robert Macfarlane’s The Wild Places; speaking of his friend Roger Deakin;
**Quoted in Oliver Burkeman’s The Antidote.
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