Finding the Wild Within




Yet, our search is superficial without really going to the brave depths of what a search for the wild within must mean on our planet. For if we were to weigh some of the life on Earth, here’s what it would break down to:

  • 425 million tons of humans and livestock (humans and cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry)
  • 10 million tons of all wild land animals

Wildlife make up a very small portion of the animals on our planet, and it wasn’t always that way.

So why are we, as humans, simultaneously revering the wild while also destroying wild habitats, polluting rivers, changing the climate, and growing more people consuming more domesticated animals, chopping down more trees, developing more land, mining more resources? Why do we long for the wild, and yet also face the sixth mass extinction crisis — the last one being the dinosaurs, and the only one that is human caused?

How do we find the wild within? And how do we hold sacred and protect our wild ecosystems and the animals who live amid them given the rapid explosion of human development and the wasteful, gobbling monster of human consumption? And are the answers to these questions the same or similar?
