David Hahn, Sacred Areas.

5/1/08


From The Practice of the Wild: Essays

“Now we can rethink what sacred land might be. For a people of an old culture, all their mutually owned territory holds a numinous life and spirit. Certain places are perceived to be high spiritual density because of plant or animal habitat intensities, or associations with legend, or connections with human totemic ancestry, or because of geomorphological anomaly, or some combination of qualities.” (Snyder, 100)
Snyder saying this makes me bring up a huge question, what makes an area sacred? Snyder also makes me realize how many diverse qualities and aspects of the wild affect an area in aiding it in being sacred. He also makes me see that some areas of land are extremely powerful to certain cultures because of many possible reasons.