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Not Seeing Wolves

Not Seeing Wolves ORGANIZATION & ENVIRO St. NMENT Germain / March / NOT 1999 SEEING WOLVES Art and the Natural Environment SHERYL ST. GERMAIN Iowa State University July 23, On Board the Columbia, Traveling From Sitka to Petersburg It’s drizzling and gray, slightly foggy. Can’t see much of the landscape beyond about half a mile. It’s a shame; this is supposed to be a particularly beautiful stretch. We just saw some humpback whales close to the ship, and I sat on the deck in the wet air watching them and thinking about how Alaska is home to many of the threatened Ones. Thinking about whales leads me, inevitably, to think about wolves. The wolf, long a denizen of the wilderness, is the animal that symbolizes for most of us both the powerful beauty and feral terror of wilderness. Whether it is the depraved and godless wilderness of the Old Testament or the mortally terrifying American wil- derness of the early settlers or the disappearing, nourishing wilderness we now crave to sanctify and preserve, the wolf is metaphor and mother, heart and body of that wild geography. Its fragile existence is a dark echo of what we have come to understand, actually or http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Organization & Environment SAGE

Not Seeing Wolves

St. Germain, Sheryl
Organization & Environment , Volume 12 (1): 8 – Mar 1, 1999
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ORGANIZATION & ENVIRO St. NMENT Germain / March / NOT 1999 SEEING WOLVES Art and the Natural Environment SHERYL ST. GERMAIN Iowa State University July 23, On Board the Columbia, Traveling From Sitka to Petersburg It’s drizzling and gray, slightly foggy. Can’t see much of the landscape beyond about half a mile. It’s a shame; this is supposed to be a particularly beautiful stretch. We just saw some humpback whales close to the ship, and I sat on the deck in the wet air watching them and thinking about how Alaska is home to many of the threatened Ones. Thinking about whales leads me, inevitably, to think about wolves. The wolf, long a denizen of the wilderness, is the animal that symbolizes for most of us both the powerful beauty and feral terror of wilderness. Whether it is the depraved and godless wilderness of the Old Testament or the mortally terrifying American wil- derness of the early settlers or the disappearing, nourishing wilderness we now crave to sanctify and preserve, the wolf is metaphor and mother, heart and body of that wild geography. Its fragile existence is a dark echo of what we have come to understand, actually or

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Published: Mar 1, 1999

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