![]() I suppose you could say: We have the luxury of regretting it. ![]() Some people celebrate that fact-Hooray, humanity conquers the wilderness, making life safer and more comfortable for everybody. To a considerable degree, these and other wild places have been tamed. You might enter a little village café on the island of Kosrae, in the southwestern Pacific, and find several local children watching the Three Stooges on a VCR. You might gaze into the sky over the highlands of New Guinea and see a helicopter, bringing in two oil geologists along with their wall tent, their survey equipment, their Macintosh, and their food, including a two-month supply of Pringles. For instance, nowadays you might step out of a dugout canoe at the Amazon headwaters and meet an Indian man wearing a red feather through his nose and a gimme cap reading OKLAHOMA SOONERS. The widest seas have been effectively narrowed, the highest mountains effectively lowered, the coldest polar regions made effectively warmer and more hospitable, not simply by adventurous human visitors but by the cultural and technological trappings that modern humans bring. The fiercest deserts have been split by roads and planted with artificial oases. The great zones of forest and swamp have been reduced to small, tattered remnants of what they once were. Wild places, in the ordinary sense of that phrase, are in preciously short supply on planet Earth at the end of the twentieth century. The title of this book alludes to a scarce resource. The Swallow That Hibernates Underwater Trinket from Aru Bagpipes for Ed Point of Attachment Voice Part for a Duet Love in the Age of Relativity Strawberries Under Ice ![]() Pinhead Secrets The Keys to Kingdom Come Karl’s Sense of Snow The Trees Cry Out on Currawong Moor The Big Turn Eat of This Flesh Reaction Wood Superdove on 46th Street Before the Fall The White Tigers of Cincinnati To Live and Die in L.A. Synecdoche and the Trout Time and Tide on the Ocoee River Vortex Only Connect Grabbing the Loop ![]()
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