"The romantic legacy means that wilderness is more a state of mind than a fact of nature, and the state of mind that today that today most defines wilderness is wonder. The striking power of the wild is that wonder in the face of it requires no act of will, but forces itself upon us- as an expression of the nonhuman world experienced through the lens of our cultural history- as proof that ours is not the only presence in the universe." -William Cronon
"Bewilderment is simply a prerequisite for another form of seeing; it is an unsettled appearance that allows for the double presence of human and other. That the poet or the artist are the seers and makers of such works derives from the traditions of mimesis and poesis, activities that entail the actualization of potential, the bringing forth of something previously unknown, or even nonexistent. The development of techniques of collage and montage simply represents the deep (natural?) human desire to realize new latent visions- new connections and possibilities for relationship between things... indeterminacy, inclusivity, overlay, rupture, simultaneity, stochastic event, instability, association, collusion" -James Corner
“The idea of ‘wildness’ in landscape design owes its historical origins to the eighteenth-century picturesque, in which the most prized vista appear to have been magically invoked by the powers of nature alone rather than human design. Yet this idea of a view that artfully improves upon elements of nature does not readily applied to Clement’s Deborence Island [in Parc Henri Matisse], since the raised plateau cannot really be seen from the park apart from the overhanging branches and vegetation spilling down the concrete walls: this landscape within a landscape must be largely left to the imagination.” -Matthew Gandy
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