*It is a self-willed land because plants and animals can thrive there, in
their own unfettered communities*
*No where has been left * * untouched by people in the humanization of our
land, leaving behind a simplified ecology that has lost most of its wild
heritage. * *Wilderness and wildland should be important to us. If you wish
to learn more about this, read some of the articles and learn how giving
land back to wild nature would make some of Britain's landscapes
self-willed again*
Self-willed land for its own sake will only exist in Britain if land is
held inalienably in the public good and that legislation exists to define
its natural wild character, and thus the limits to human intervention
* Mark Fisher - mark.fisher@self-willed-land.org.uk
<mark.fisher@self-willed-land.org.uk>*
* WILD - is Willed, Will'd (or self-willed) in opposition to those (whether
men or beasts) who are tamed or subdued (by reason or otherwise) to the
will of others or of Societies - * John Horne Tooke 1805
‘Wild’ is the participle past of ‘to will’; a ‘wild’ horse is a ‘willed’ or
self-willed horse, one that has been never tamed or taught to submit its
will to the will of another; and so with a man - Richard Chenevix Trench
1853