The Last Wild Edge insists that there are values other than the quantitative or the industrial. Because the scientists have lost their credibility, it falls to the artists, the shamans and painters and poets to focus their X-ray eyes, to see into the life of things, and to communicate these visions to the rest of us. The relationship between space and time. Going north is spinning backwards through time to the Ice Age. Human time is merely an illusion as we pass in a flicker of Earth time.
Constant transformations are the essence of being alive, be it human or mountain or glacier or love.
The connection between place and personal identity. She implies that everything we want and everything we need exists in the wild. That when we interfere, we risk destroying ourselves. For Susan Zwinger, biology is a portal into the Great Mystery. Dead trees become nurse logs even before they fall, sprouting new hemlocks and many shrubs along their lengths.