{"product_id":"9780262312837","title":"The Rediscovery of the Wild","description":"We often enjoy the benefits of connecting with nearby, domesticated nature -- a city park, a backyard garden. But this book makes the provocative case for the necessity of connecting with wild nature -- untamed, unmanaged, not encompassed, self-organizing, and unencumbered and unmediated by technological artifice. We can love the wild. We can fear it. We are strengthened and nurtured by it. As a species, we came of age in a natural world far wilder than today's, and much of the need for wildness still exists within us, body and mind. \u003ci\u003eThe Rediscovery of the Wild\u003c\/i\u003e considers ways to engage with the wild, protect it, and recover it -- for our psychological and physical well-being and to flourish as a species. The contributors offer a range of perspectives on the wild, discussing such topics as the evolutionary underpinnings of our need for the wild; the wild within, including the primal passions of sexuality and aggression; birding as a portal to wildness; children's fascination with wild animals; wildness and psychological healing; the shifting baseline of what we consider wild; and the true work of conservation.","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47101929029872,"sku":"9780262312837","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780262312837_p0.jpg?v=1763682224","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780262312837","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}