This is great Blake, and I love the imagery. You have to live on the edge of the wilderness both literally and figuratively. Have you come across Benton MacKaye's article that drove the vision and development of the Appalachian Trail? This piece reminds me a lot of that. As far as I can tell, he never imagined the trail as a venue for thru-hiking. He saw it as a network of connections between towns and the wilderness that would allow people to maintain just what you're talking about here, in a literal sense - an ability to easily escape from the edge of town into the woods. His focus was on human improvement, and he uses a great phrase to describe his vision - "a new approach to the problem of living." Here's MacKaye's original article - https://appalachiantrail.org/our-work/an-appalachian-trail-a-project-in-regional-planning/
My entire heart right there💜
SO beautifully said. Like, perfect.
This is great Blake, and I love the imagery. You have to live on the edge of the wilderness both literally and figuratively. Have you come across Benton MacKaye's article that drove the vision and development of the Appalachian Trail? This piece reminds me a lot of that. As far as I can tell, he never imagined the trail as a venue for thru-hiking. He saw it as a network of connections between towns and the wilderness that would allow people to maintain just what you're talking about here, in a literal sense - an ability to easily escape from the edge of town into the woods. His focus was on human improvement, and he uses a great phrase to describe his vision - "a new approach to the problem of living." Here's MacKaye's original article - https://appalachiantrail.org/our-work/an-appalachian-trail-a-project-in-regional-planning/