Allen Grace 3 on Practice of the Wild

In The Place, The Region and The Commons, Synder, whom is much better than Dillard, talks about how to experience a place and what it is meant to live in place. We use to have a common place to relax in and enjoy, but increasingly so that place is disappearing. He talks about other things, but this is very important. This relaxing place, is not the place of the past. Everything is mapped, and everything is known. There is nowhere that someone can truly get lost. Yes you can get lost in a city, or lost driving someplace, but I am talking about getting truly messed up and lost in a sense, of where you do not know right from left, north from south, or night from day. Discussion in class back when talked about grids. Everything has grids, and everything is mapped out, and perfect. That flattens and shrinks the world exponentially. There are no good forests or woods left, atleast in America. Yes you have parks, yes you have retreats, and preserves and natural spots, but you cannot get lost. You are on a grid, and eventually will come out. While thinking about this, one place that you could truly get lost in is a wild cave. And your lights go out. Then youd prolly eat it. Haha. But you would not know anything night from day, right from left, up from down. If you could live to tell of that happening that would be crazy. stuck in a cave for a couple weeks. provided you have water and what not. Everything else is navigable.