Arcadia
Rothschild's Wilderness: How a Primeval Forest Survived the Timber Industry
History of the primeval forest Urwald Rothwald and how it survived through time.
History of the primeval forest Urwald Rothwald and how it survived through time.
This part of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by semiotician Kadri Tüur, describes how terms denoting general categories regarding nature are quite diverse in Estonia—a country where language and culture have been very intimately intertwined with landscapes and their natural conditions.
The German term Wildnis, as is demonstrated in this part of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition by historian Patrick Kupper, has always referred to places of difference, distinct by their very separation from society’s cultivated spaces.