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0691228620 epub Timely and provocative reflections on the future of the wild in an increasingly human world The Heart of the Wild brings together some of todays leading scientists, humanists, and nature writers to offer a thought-provoking meditation on the urgency of learning about and experiencing our wild places in an age of rapidly expanding human impacts. These engaging essays present nuanced and often surprising perspectives on the meaning and value of wildness amid the realities of the Anthropocene. They consider the trends and forcesfrom the cultural and conceptual to the ecological and technologicalthat are transforming our relationship with the natural world and sometimes seem only to be pulling us farther away from wild places and species with each passing day. The contributors make impassioned defenses of naturalism, natural history, and nature education in helping us to rediscover a love for the wild at a time when our connections with it have frayed or been lost altogether. Charting a new path forward in an era of ecological uncertainty, Read more