The Heart of the Wilderness brings together some of today's most prominent scholars, humanists, and nature writers to offer a thought-provoking reflection on the necessity of learning about and experiencing our wild places in an age of rapidly growing human influences.These interesting essays offer accurate and often surprising perspectives on the meaning and value of “wilderness” under the realities of the Anthropocene. It addresses the trends and forces - from cultural and conceptual to environmental and technological - that change our relationship with the natural world, sometimes seeming to pull us further and further away from wild places and species with each passing day.Contributors offer enthusiastic defenses of naturalism, natural history, and environmental education, helping us rediscover our love of wildlife at a time when our connections to it have faded or been lost altogether.
The Heart of the Wilderness charts a new path forward in an era of environmental uncertainty, reframing our understanding of nature and our responsibility to learn from it and preserve it as human impact deepens further into the landscape around us. With contributions from Bill Adams, Joel Berger, Susan Clayton, Ellen Crest, and Martha L. Crump, Thomas Louis Flechner, and Harry W. Greene, Hal Herzog, and Jonathan P. Losos, Emma Maris, and Ben A. Minter, Kathleen Dean Moore, Gary Paul Nabhan, Peter H. Raven, Christopher J. Shell, Richard Shane, and Kyle White.
