Wilderness Quote

We get the nature calendar view of nature. We think wilderness is in Alaska, wilderness is the Himalayas, wilderness is some other place. And what wildness means to me is the possibility of states beyond the human and moments where we interact with species other than our own, in our normal lives. I always say my greatest nature moments have been on Cape Cod watching humpback whales off my home beach. And that's greater than any one I've traveled to South or Central America. There's something wild about it happening at home. Similarly, I've had wild moments where I was with my dad when he died, hearing his breathing slow, and I was with my daughter when she was born. And these are wild moments too. So for me, the key to wildness is its integration with our so-called normal lives. That it's not something we go to beyond our quotidian day-to-day lives.

- David Gessner on TTBOOK.