"To the late Gerald ""May,"" the urge to dominate the wild is the most fundamental estrangement of Western ""civilization,"" damaging to the planet and ourselves alike. Before we can effectively heal the ""Earth,"" we must recover our own natural wildness and kinship with nature. We cannot do this ""ourselves,"" but only through ""the"" grace of Something or Someone ""beyond"" - which May found in Nature itself. Parker J. Palmer's Foreword illuminates May's importance and how this last book fits into his body of work."