Thoreau: “in wildness is the preservation of the world”
Pouring an artistic material on to something wild but not grand, pristine or Wilderness and making it resemble those select few areas that are protected from the destructive touch of humans.
If we reframed the view of nature to be less of a dichotomy where what is pristine and grandiose should be protected and what is not should be exploited as natural resource, we might arrive at a more complex and nuanced point of view that not only comprehends that the great Wilderness and our back yard are one in the same, but attempts to evaluate some of the complex environmental issues as if we were part of Nature and not above it or somehow altogether separate from it.
With help from Uncommon Ground – Rethinking the Human Place in Nature