Necessary wildness: a fountain of life
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in — John Muir
Wildness is necessary
This beautiful video, from Scotland the Big Picture, showcases the country’s mountainous wildness and John Muir.
Abundance and diversity is a mindset, a thinking pattern, as much as it is about flourishing wildlife land and seas. You-I-we thrive under such conditions.
Video quote
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life. John Muir
Wildness is a fountain of life
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains – mountain dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature’s workshops. John Muir
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Scotland,The Big Picture, scotlandbigpicture.com, seeks to:
return abundance and diversity of life to Scotland’s land and seas, so that wildlife flourishes and people thrive. SCOTLAND: The Big Picture works in a spirit of collaboration with a diverse range of people to make rewilding happen, at many different levels, across Scotland.
For more wild Scotland see Time for the Wild here>
More poetry, visual index, here>
Photos on this page are by Festina Lentívaldi, (be) Benevolution. Reuse: Creative Commons BY-NC 3.0 US. Except for photos from the video. See the video credits for those.
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