If I purchase land and clearcut it, that will have different effects (on the land, my psyche, the economy, and other things). If I purchase land and set it aside, that has an effect on that land (many effects, actually, on the land and many other things, including my psyche and the economy). The questions then become: How well can we perceive what it wants, and how can we help it get there?īefore all you biocentrists freak out at me putting my own desires into this discussion, let’s first consider: every being affects its surroundings. We can safely say the land itself knows better than we what it wants and what is best for it.
So here’s a question I’ve been asking lately: How do I want the land where I live to be in a thousand years? The answers to that question depend of course on answers to: How does the land want to be in a thousand years? And those answers depend on answers to: How was the land prior to the arrival of civilization? They hunted, gathered, and they fished using methods that would be sustainable over centuries and even millennia.” Fortunately, they did so in a sustainable way.
In Strangely Like War, George Draffan and I cited Ray Rafael, who has written extensively on the concept of wilderness: “Native Americans interacted with their environment on many levels.
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