Wildness

For the Snow Patrol album, see Wildness (album).
Not to be confused with Wilderness.
A wild red fox
A wild forest

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[1] and that which is not domesticated.[2] 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"[3] and "the autonomous ecological influences of nonhuman organisms."[4]

  1. ^ Thoreau 1906.
  2. ^ Ritvo, Harriet (2004-04-01). "Animal Planet". Environmental History. 9 (2): 204–220. doi:10.2307/3986084. ISSN 1084-5453. JSTOR 3986084.
  3. ^ Cookson, L. J. (2011). "A definition for wildness". Ecopsychology. 3 (3): 187–193. doi:10.1089/eco.2011.0028.
  4. ^ Cantrell, Bradley; Martin, Laura J.; Ellis, Erle C. (2017). "Designing Autonomy: Opportunities for New Wildness in the Anthropocene". Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 32 (3): 156–166. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2016.12.004. ISSN 1872-8383. PMID 28108135.