2011-08-31
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“ Jefferies had no interest in the nineteenth-century North American idea of wilderness on a grand scale—a phenomenon to be experienced only amid the red-rock citadels of the desert or the glacier-ground peaks. For Jefferies, wildness of an equal intensity existed in the spinneys and hills of England, and he wrote about those places with the same wonder that his contemporaries were expressing in their reports on the Amazon, the Pacific, the Rockies, and the Rub‘ al-Khali. ”
Richard Jefferies, discussed by Robert Macfarlane in his article Going to Ground: Britain’s Holloways for Orion Magazine (via Russell Davies).
