I had the opportunity to read a piece by Douglas Christie
entitled The Wild and The Sacred
which opens with a section that talks about the disregard people have the
wilderness through an anecdote concerning Headwaters Forest in northern
California. The Pacific Lumber Company
is trying to cut down these colossal fantastic trees and the people of the area
have come together to form a protest. I discussed
this in a section of my paper as an example of communitas where people have
lost their social structure and are here connected through a mutual goal of
saving the wilderness. At one point in
the reading the author quotes a drummer who states that the people and the forest
are sharing one heartbeat which struck me as extremely interesting. This is due mainly to the fact that we have
become so isolated from nature since the industrial mentality set in. these
people at this protest are aware of the importance of the wilderness and how it
must be protected so that people do not lose it forever because despite its
great power it still is fragile compared to our destructive might. I discussed in my journal about landscapes
of the sacred Lane’s idea of space and place and the need for a balance of
both. Here we see where place is
attempting to disrupt this balance and thankfully people are there to oppose it
unified in the knowledge that wilderness is necessary just as much as place
is.
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