Sarah’s Reviews > The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness > Status Update

"This is the impossible draw of the wilderness: even to enter it is to denature it in some way
And thus we fixate on this unattainable beauty, paint it, map it, celebrate it, fight for it - or the idea of it. For it to remain a true wilderness, a pure wilderness, unsullied by chainsaws or territorial claims, it must remain always slightly out of reach." p11