WHY WE NEED WILD LANDby Jules Pretty, a significant advocate of emerging people and
Sustainable agriculture is a much bandied-about phrase, no less than
frustrating argument in wilderness debate that tends to diminish the
Pretty's disdain for wilderness is a continuation of an especially
they would have seen would have been the result of shaping for at least
For those early European settlers in north America, the landscapes
seasonally between the interior, river valleys and the coast (the native
Many native north Americans lived in villages that were moved
Europeans (particulalrly the English) would have been familiar with:
Contrast this with the contemporary land use pattern that the
wildness of the landscapes would only have increased since diseases from
And for a few hundred years after those first settlers, the apparent
eighteenth century onwards could thus easily construct a pristine
The chroniclers of north American wilderness that burgeoned from the
represent true wilderness is missing the point. What we should be
I believe this argument about whether landscapes in north America
north American settlement, but with a nasty twist. If the settlers in
Depressingly, the colonisation of Australia can be seen in parallel
to
had a similar approach to settlement and land use to that of the native
There is evidence that many thousands of years ago, a part of England
connotations for many. However, it is a logical application of a
The exploitation of landscapes through slash and burn has negative
poor practices of the inexperienced (or selfish) who leave no or a very
Shifting cultivation is unpopular with foresters. They see only the
fallow is enriched and its period is extended, so that the land can be
A trend is emerging amongst some shifting cultivators whereby the
go back to a shifting cultivation of slash and burn - too many people to
Even I would have to admit that it is probably too late for England
to
continuum of decreasing intensity of use until wild land is reached, and
As a Permaculturist, I have put forward a view of our countryside as
a
Mark Fisher, 25 July 2005
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