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To early civilizations the wilderness was a place of desolation and contemplation, inhabited by beasts of prey, demons, hermits and madmen. This conception was important in defining civilization: it became the 'other' to civilization's self. Fear of the wild kept people within the city walls and gave those who ventured out a sense of being in enemy territory. As such, a dichotomy was created between "human" and "nature" that keeps individuals from living wildly, meaning, in terms of their impulses.

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To early civilizations the wilderness was a place of desolation and contemplation, inhabited by beasts of prey, demons, hermits and madmen. This conception was important in defining civilization: it became the 'other' to civilization's self. Fear of the wild kept people within the city walls and gave those who ventured out a sense of being in enemy territory. As such, a dichotomy was created between "human" and "nature" that keeps individuals from living wildly, meaning, in terms of their impulses.