Sunday, July 12, 2009

Wildness and the Savage Heart

photo by Nathan Abels - taken in Estes Park, Colorado

From Wallace Stegner's The American West as Living Space;

"Why should I stand up for civilization? Thoreau asked a lecture audience. Any burgher or churchwarden would stand up for that. Thoreau chose instead to stand up for wildness and the savage heart."

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