Wilderness is central to the image of Maine most of us carry in our
minds. In this extraordinary collection nearly forty writers, poets,
artists, and photographers bear witness to the central role it plays in
Maine, its importance to our understanding of nature, to our sense of
who we are in the world, to our very souls. And some of them devote
practical thinking to how we might recover and nurture wilderness in the
future.At this time of major changes in land ownership in the North
Woods and of development pressures and sprawl threatening the rural
landscape of southern and central Maine, these voices for wilderness
could not be more relevant.