"Wilderness may temporarily dwindle, but wildness wont go away,  A ghost wilderness hovers around the entire planet: the millions of tiny seeds of the original vegetation are hiding in the mud on the foot of an arctic tern, in the dry desert sands, or in the wind.  These seeds are uniquely adapted to a specific soil or circumstance, each with its own little form and fluff, ready to float, freeze, or be swallowed, always preserving the germ.  Wilderness will inevitably return, but it will not be as fine a world as the one that was glistening in the early morning of the Holocene.  Much life will be lost in the wake of human agency on earth, that of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.  Much is already lost-

Where do we start to resolve the dichotomy of the civilized and the wild?

Our bodies are wild.  The involuntary quick turn of the head at a shout, the vertigo at looking off a precipice, the heart-in-the-throat in a moment of danger, the catch of the breath, the quiet moments relaxing, staring, relfecting-all universal responses of this mammal body.  They can be seen throughout the class.  The body does not require the intercession of some consious intellect to make it breathe, to keep the heart beating.  It is to a great extent self-regulating, it is a life of its own.  Sensation and perception do not exactly come from outside, and the unremitting thought and image-flow are not exactly inside.  The world is our consciousness, and it surrounds us.  There are more things in mind, in the imagination, than "you" can keep track of-thoughts, memories, images, angers, delights, rise unbidden.  The depths of mind, the unconscious, are our inner wilderness areas, and that is where a bobcat is right now.  I do not mean personal bobcats in personal psyches, but the bobcat that roams from dream to dream.  The conscious agenda-planning ego occupies a very tiny territory, a little cubicle somewhere near the gate, keeping track of some of what goes in and out (and sometimes making expansionistic plots), and the rest takes care of itself.  The body is, so to speak, in the mind.  They are both wild."

On wilderness vs wildness, The Practice of the Wild, Gary Snyder, 1990