Brien Carr - Cycle of Nature - Gary Snyder

Snyder mentioned the thought of a place being "forever eventually" wild. In this he did not mean that a city is considered wild by his definitions of his work, but, he was referring to a cycle of nature that allows a place that may initially be wild to be used, ignored, and then nature has the ability to reestablish itself at this site. On a less serious note, this reminds me of images and thoughts from the movie the Lion King. Which I suppose that, in all seriousness, is what this statement is referencing. A place that we as humans can inhabit will at some point loose all of its structure and begin to blend back into the wild, regardless of the human footprint left on that site. Stonehenge would be a good example of what was once a place of civilization that now only has a small glimpse of the human life that once inhabited that area. Grasses and vegitation have overgrown the area and now the public has even stepped in and restricted access to this area as a means of preservation. But can we really go as far as to asume that one day New York city will erode into a pile of metal and concrete dust and Central Park will grow out of its concrete flower box and overtake the city? Only time will tell.