Free-Flowing Waters: A Vision for a Lower Mississippi River Wilderness

Abstract

Wilderness is a feeling. It is more than that, of course—wilderness is the wind and the water, the turtles and coyotes, all that exists beyond and around and within our human selves. But when we speak of wilderness, we’re so often speaking about a feeling: that feeling of smallness, strangely comforting, or of connection, or of wonder at how much there is in the world.

Keywords

• education
• engagement
• environmental justice
• lower mississippi river
• public programs