...This chapter turns to the important, recurring images of wildness which can be found in the myths. The starting points are the two bulls of Europa and Pasiphae. Europa's encounter with Zeus in bovine form is superficially the antithesis of Pasiphae's love for a real bull: she is the object...

... beneath their bark. In short, he spoke their language. He loved their beauty, wildness, patience and persistence. Trees suggested the “ancient rectitude” of nature.” Nothing stands up more free from blame than a pine tree.” Trees also emerge in his writings as special emblems and images of the divine...

...This chapter explores the meanings and manifestations of wildness in the context of the Driftless Area of the Upper Midwest. Untouched by the Pleistocene glaciers that scraped across most of northern North America, the Driftless Area is a geographical anomaly. Its rugged terrain, exposed...

...This chapter examines the idea of wilderness as political act by turning to one of Henry D. Thoreau's essays entitled “A Winter Walk.” Thoreau's essays give emphasis to wildness as political act. The chapter identifies the kind of political action or engagement to which Thoreau was always committed...

.... Ethical tensions and challenges surrounding the interplay of zoo animal welfare, recreation and entertainment, and the pursuit of broader conservation goals (linking ex-situ and wild populations) are also addressed. The chapter concludes with an overview of the volume’s main themes and questions...

...The relationship between zoos and the wild is complex and often contradictory. The controlled and curated character of their existence means that zoo animals are not fully “wild,” at least compared to their counterparts in nature. Emerging trends in zoo design emphasizing greater exhibit naturalism...

...In many ways the environmental antithesis of gardens—wild instead of cultivated, seemingly infinite rather than contained, places of mystery and loneliness as opposed to sites of conventional courtship—forests have complex metaphorical valences in Virginia Woolf’s novels and essays. While a few...

... considers Thoreau’s Journal, which he considered a separate work with its own forms of intimacy with nature; then his political writings including “Slavery in Massachusetts” and “Resistance to Civil Government.” It concludes with a section on wildness, drawing especially on the essay...

...This epilogue reviews some of the issues of most importance in this book, especially those that have been raised but not yet resolved by ecocriticism. In particular, it explores the idea not of wilderness, a central value for many American ecocritics, but of “wildness” of calculated incivility...

...In 2017 we travelled to Belize as part of a multi-site ethnographic project focusing on the meanings of wildness worldwide. What may have appeared as pristine and wild waters and atolls just a few years before, were now under the multiple threats of commercial and industrial development...

... “Spring,” Thoreau combines a numinous vision of continuous creation with an evolutionary dynamic informed by recent scientific discoveries in biology, geography, and geology. Thoreau imagined nature’s wildness, which enables us to “witness our own limits transgressed,” as wedded thereby to our sense...

...The Insurmountable Darkness of Love. Douglas E. Christie, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190885168.003.0004 This chapter considers what it means to enter the space that Flemish mystic Hadewijch of Antwerp describes as a “wild, wide...

... with kowori people. The chapter also shows how the warrior performances of Waorani youth in local school events and state-sponsored folklore festivals reveal the generational and embodied dimensions of memory in urban intercultural encounters. The imagery of violence and “wildness” can be seen in the social...

... Alexander economics enslaved people Naming and nicknaming Athens Greek Wars of Independence boosterism democracy unity harmony wildness The American interest in the Greek Wars of Independence (1821–1828) surfaces as one possible reason for the popularity for the name and nickname of Athens for US...

... of Leopold’s perspective. This is a long-term, holistic, evolutionary, and dynamic perspective, in which the role of large predator species is integral. The perspective also includes the essential element of the wild, or wildness. This enlarged view of a question such as the reintroduction of wolves...

... state or damaged condition of the natural world, and analyzes the mythic state of nature and the ideal and ideological beginnings of the ruling political authority. The chapter concludes with an analysis of the problems of anarchic ecology concerning “wildness.” anarchy anthropological machine ethics...

... ego psychology and bibliotherapy. In Where the Wild Things Are (1963), Sendak updates Freud’s famous dream of the Wolf Man, giving picturebook psychology a neo-Freudian makeover and establishing psychological wildness as the very stuff of child life. The chapter concludes with some...

...The introduction establishes the terms of reference for the book, by first explaining the context of the Wild Rivers Act and land rights in Australia before then examining the history of concepts of ‘the wild’ and wilderness. As this shows, ‘the wild’ has long been a concept open...

...In Chapter 1, I argue that ‘wildness’ is a product settler attempts to understand and thereby spatially remake the Northern Australia since the first colonial encounters in the 17^th Century. For European explorers, a region like Cape York Peninsula was a wilderness to be surveyed...

...This chapter explores negative and positive connotations for the term wildness through conversations with crew members from Greencorps Chicago, a program of the City of Chicago that specializes in contractual landscaping and ecological restoration work and whose participants are typically ex...