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Wildness

March 11, 2017 7:35 pm by James Proctor — last modified March 17, 2017 11:35 am

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Purity as applied to nature and human nature, typically in hybrid/mixed contexts to suggest greater authenticity than these contexts. Opposite of postnaturalism and other hybrid theories.

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A wild red fox.
Not to be confused with Wilderness.

Wildness, in its literal sense, is the quality of being wild or untamed. Beyond this, it has been defined as a quality produced in nature, as that which emerges from a forest, and as a level of achievement in nature. More recently, it has been defined as "a quality of interactive processing between organism and nature where the realities of base natures are met, allowing the construction of durable systems". A wilderness is a place where wildness occurs.

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