Joel Meyerowitz Legacy

In het boek Legacy van Joel Meyerowitz. Welke echt prachtig is. Hierin toont hij de stadsparken van New York. Waarin de wildernis nog gevoeld kan worden. Dit wordt in de introductietekst prachtig verwoord. En met name de quote van Wendell Berry:

The survival of wilderness - of places that we do not change, where we allow the existence even of creatures we perceive as dangerous - is necessary. Our sanity probably requires it. Whether we go to these places or not, we need to know that they exist. And I would argue that we do not need just the great public wildernesses, but millions of small private or semi-private ones. Every farm should have one; wildernesses can occupy corners of factory grounds and city lots - places where nature is given a free hand, where no human work is done, where people go only as guests. These places function, I think, whether we intend them to or not, as sacred groves - places we respect and leaave alone, not because we understand well what goes on there, but because we do not.