Humans Are Also Part of Nature

I heard that "nature can heal itself if human not bother it", so what is humans role in wilderness ?


I suggest that we carry only the best parts of modern life toward the goal of preserving and restoring wilderness as the existential context of our being.


Nature is capable of healing itself. It can be encouraged to do so while humans are still present on the planet, or we can wait and let it do so after our species goes extinct which—at the current pace of change—might not take very long.


We have a rightful place and role in wilderness, as a "keystone species," that enriches the diversity of life on Earth, if we nestle our social units into a self-managing natural order, and acknowledge that we can only positively affect a tiny fraction of wild nature. A well-integrated human-island system, arranged almost randomly, and dispersed through wild nature, could preserve all (existing) species in their natural patterns of abundance and distribution. 


Human wilderness resettlement integrates humans and nonhumans within a single, extended community, and nothing else will achieve this end. It is a vision of the future that looks a lot like the past, but one that allows for significant human change and progress.

Wilderness works - that is to say, it sustains, diversifies, and elaborates the whole of life. No other form of land-protection (and many substitutes are now being offered) has been time-tested and proven. Notably, as wilderness declines around the world, the biodiversity crisis worsens. We would be wise to turn away from the ecological ideal of a human-controlled landscape, and, instead, seek to re-enter the ordered pattern of wild nature.


The principle of human power over nature has been extended past the point where evolution, by itself, can force a constellation of natural human settlements. What traditional peoples did spontaneously, by the will of nature, we must do deliberately, which means that the emergence of a future rational society must proceed and endure according to an overall wilderness plan. Some coordination at the continental level, among local units of human self-determination, is a precondition for achieving and maintaining human balance on the land. Central authority is rational inasmuch as it permits a free interplay between humans and the rest of nature that prevailed in the landscape of perpetual youth. As the poet Baudelaire said: "Genius is childhood recaptured."


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