An Ecomusicologist’s Manifesto
<p>When Henry David Thoreau, in 1851, took to the lectern at the Concord Lyceum, he proclaimed to those in attendance, “I wish to speak a word for Nature.” The speech that followed was written in response to, and in the context of, the rapidly growing materialist, consumerist, and utilitarian culture reveling in the exploitation and abhorrence of wilderness, to an audience stocked with civilization’s most fervent champions. With the conclusion of his speech, he declared, “in wildness is the preservation of the world.” And with his words, Thoreau marked a turning point in American thought away from superficial talk of nature derived from excessive Romanticism, and towards a more meaningful, sincere understanding of Earth’s Wilderness as it is.</p>
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