A 20th Century British poet, named Edmund Blunden, wrote, "I am for the woods against the world, / But are the woods for me?" The woods embody, for us, the larger web of life, the source of wholeness and healing, but they do not "care" if we live or die. Despite the abundance and power of life, when confronted with reminders that each of us is very fragile, mortal and limited we might begin to wonder, "Is the universe out to get me?" As the author and teacher Scott Russell Sanders noted in the introduction to Wild and Scenic Indiana, "Wildness is the way of the world, and in the long run it will either teach us how to behave or it will shove us aside."