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For State and Capital, wilderness means wasteland. They look upon the wild with cruel and rapacious eye. They hunger to rape and plunder the wild. They yearn to subdue, control, exploit - kill all that lives freely. The antithesis of the wild is the domesticated - controlled for the ends of power. The same forces that seek to destroy wild nature, destroy wild mind. Out of ancient forests and ancient communities they produce tree farms and suburbia (tree farms, the suburbia of trees; suburbia, the tree farm of humanity).

- Max Cafard, Fifth Estate, Spring -93.