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The Wilderness (company)
The Wilderness may refer to wilderness, a natural environment. The Wilderness may also refer to: Film and television * ''The Wilderness'' (2024 film), a South Korean Netflix film Places * The Wilderness (Virginia), a dense forest in Virginia, site of American Civil War battles * The Wilderness (Ohio), and The Wilderness Trail, part of the Edge of Appalachia Preserve in southern Ohio *The Wilderness (Trappe, Maryland), a historic home at Matthews in Maryland * The Wilderness (Catonsville, Maryland), a historic home near Catonsville in Maryland * The Wilderness SSSI, Isle of Wight, a site of special scientific interest on the Isle of Wight * The Battle of the Wilderness, in 1864 in north-central Virginia, during the American Civil War Novels * ''The Wilderness'' (novel), an historical novel by James McHenry * ''The Wilderness'', a novel by Samantha Harvey * "The Wilderness" (short story), by Ray Bradbury (1952) Music * ''The Wilderness'' (Cowboy Junkies album), 2012 * ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilderness
Wilderness or wildlands (usually in the plural), are natural environments on Earth that have not been significantly modified by human activity or any nonurbanized land not under extensive agricultural cultivation. The term has traditionally referred to terrestrial environments, though growing attention is being placed on marine wilderness. Recent maps of wilderness suggest it covers roughly one quarter of Earth's terrestrial surface, but is being rapidly degraded by human activity. Even less wilderness remains in the ocean, with only 13.2% free from intense human activity. Some governments establish protection for wilderness areas by law to not only preserve what already exists, but also to promote and advance a natural expression and development. These can be set up in preserves, conservation preserves, national forests, national parks and even in urban areas along rivers, gulches or otherwise undeveloped areas. Often these areas are considered important for the survival of c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samantha Harvey (author)
Samantha Harvey is an English novelist. She is the author of several critically acclaimed novels and has been shortlisted for various literary prizes. Education Harvey completed the Bath Spa University Creative Writing MA course in 2005, and has also completed a postgraduate course in philosophy and a PhD in creative writing. Career Her first novel ''The Wilderness'' (2009), is written from the point of view of man developing Alzheimer's disease, and describes through increasingly fractured prose the unravelling effect of the disease. Her second novel, ''All Is Song'' (2012), is a novel about moral and filial duty, and about the choice between questioning and conforming. The author has described the novel as a loose, modern day reimagining of the life of Socrates. Her third novel, ''Dear Thief'', is a long letter from a woman to her absent friend, detailing the emotional fallout of a love triangle. The novel is said to be based on the Leonard Cohen song ''Famous Blue Raincoat' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willesden Junction Station
Willesden Junction is a railway station in Harlesden, north-west London, UK. It is served by both London Overground and London Underground services. History The station developed on three contiguous sites: the West Coast Main Line (WCML) station was opened by the London & North Western Railway on 1 September 1866 to replace the London and Birmingham Railway's Willesden station of 1841 which was to the northwest. Passenger services ended in 1962 when the platforms were removed during the electrification of the WCML to allow the curvature of the tracks to be eased. Later the bridges for the North London Line (NLL) were rebuilt. The High-Level station on the NLL was opened by the North London Railway in 1869 for two Richmond tracks and later for two Shepherds Bush tracks, both crossing the WCML roughly at right angles. In 1894 a new, combined High-Level station was built, with an island platform plus a third shorter platform for Earls Court trains (which was later removed) to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wilderness Society (United States)
The Wilderness Society is an American non-profit land conservation organization that is dedicated to protecting natural areas and federal public lands in the United States. They advocate for the designation of federal wilderness areas and other protective designations, such as for national monuments. They support balanced uses of public lands, and advocate for federal politicians to enact various land conservation and balanced land use proposals. The Wilderness Society also engages in a number of ancillary activities, including education and outreach, and hosts one of the most valuable collections of Ansel Adams photographs at their headquarters in Washington, D.C. The Wilderness Society specializes in issues involving lands under the management of federal agencies; such lands include national parks, national forests, national wildlife refuges, and areas overseen by the Bureau of Land Management. In the early 21st century, the society has been active in fighting recent politic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wilderness Society (Australia)
The Wilderness Society is an Australian, community-based, not-for-profit non-governmental environmental advocacy organisation. Its vision is to "transform Australia into a society that protects, respects and connects with the natural world that sustains us." It is a community-based organisation with a philosophy of non-violence and consensus decision-making. While the Wilderness Society is a politically unaligned group, it actively engages the community to lobby politicians and parties. The Wilderness Society comprises a number of separately incorporated organisations and has Campaign Centres located in all Australian capital cities (except Darwin and Canberra) and a number of regional centres. History The Wilderness Society was formed initially as the Tasmanian Wilderness Society (TWS) and was transition from the South West Tasmania Action Committee. The group was originally established in 1976 from the members of the Lake Pedder Action Committee and the Southwest Tasmani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wilderness (Explosions In The Sky Album)
''The Wilderness'' is the seventh studio album by American post-rock band Explosions in the Sky, released on April 1, 2016. Critical reception The album has received positive reviews from critics, and Metacritic has assigned it an average score of 80/100 based on 26 critics. Dave Simpson for ''The Guardian'' called it a "beautifully understated epic" and rewarded the album 4 out of 5 stars. Johnathan K. Dick, writing for Consequence of Sound stated that, "The Wilderness proves that Explosions in the Sky aren't stuck in any creative rut." and gave the album a B+. Paul Simpson for AllMusic gave the album 4 stars and said, "On The Wilderness, Explosions in the Sky deconstruct and rebuild their sound from the ground up, giving it a revitalized sense of urgency and resulting in some of their most dynamic work yet." Pitchfork rewarded the album 8/10 and said it is "their best since The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place." However, some critics gave the album mixed reviews. ''Mojo Mojo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wilderness (Cowboy Junkies Album)
''The Wilderness'' is an album by the Canadian alt-country band Cowboy Junkies, released in 2012. It is Volume Four of the Nomad Series. This volume is the introspection of winter after '' Sing in My Meadows joyful visitation of spring. Background The album is a return to the folk vibe the band played with in the late 80s and early 90s. The songwriter, Michael Timmins, "started to think in terms of an album of songs reflecting on the lives of characters I'd written about early in the band’s career and bringing those characters 20 years into the future to see where their lives were at now. Some of those songs have little touch points where, if you're a real freak and analyze the music, you can see how they connect to earlier songs -- even character's names and stuff pops into them, and that's intentional. It was fun to sit and go over those older songs and some of the ideas I was thinking about and exploring and believed in and seeing 20 years later where I sit with some of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wilderness (short Story)
"The Wilderness" is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury first published in the November 1952 issue of '' The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction'', and included in Bradbury's 1953 collection ''The Golden Apples of the Sun''. The year is 2003, and Janice and Leonora are spending their last days on Earth before leaving for Mars to join Janice's husband Will. While having mixed feelings at first, Janice slowly reveals throughout the story that she is more and more willing to join her husband on Mars while still lamenting about leaving behind all that is on Earth. Janice and Leonora also lament on the second-hand role played by women in exploration and similar situations (i.e. conquest of Western America). Reception In ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' (1953), Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas described the story as one Bradbury's best works, a "heartwarming picture of the girls we can never leave behind us, whatever far boundaries we reach"."Recommended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wilderness (novel)
The Wilderness may refer to wilderness, a natural environment. The Wilderness may also refer to: Film and television * ''The Wilderness'' (2024 film), a South Korean Netflix film Places * The Wilderness (Virginia), a dense forest in Virginia, site of American Civil War battles **Battle of the Wilderness, a major 1864 battle occurring there * The Wilderness (Ohio), and The Wilderness Trail, part of the Edge of Appalachia Preserve in southern Ohio *The Wilderness (Trappe, Maryland), a historic home at Matthews in Maryland * The Wilderness (Catonsville, Maryland), a historic home near Catonsville in Maryland * The Wilderness SSSI, Isle of Wight, a site of special scientific interest on the Isle of Wight Novels * ''The Wilderness'' (McHenry novel), an historical novel by James McHenry * ''The Wilderness'' (Harvey novel), a 2008 novel by Samantha Harvey * "The Wilderness" (short story), by Ray Bradbury (1952) Music * ''The Wilderness'' (Cowboy Junkies album), 2012 * ''The Wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Badland Hunters
''Badland Hunters'' () is an upcoming South Korean dystopian action film directed by Heo Myung-haeng in his directorial debut. Starring Ma Dong-seok, Lee Hee-joon, Lee Jun-young and Roh Jeong-eui, the film is a sequel of 2023 film ''Concrete Utopia'' and takes up the story post earthquake transformation of Seoul into an apocalyptic wasteland, where everything from law and order to civilization has collapsed. The film is an original production of Netflix and will be available for streaming on Netflix on January 26, 2024. Cast * Ma Dong-seok as Nam-san, a relentless wasteland hunter * Lee Hee-joon as Yang Gi-su, the doctor who survived the catastrophe * Lee Jun-young as Choi ji-wan, Nam-san’s trusted partner * Roh Jeong-eui as Suna, a bold girl who follows Nam-san. Production The film was planned after the production of the film ''Concrete Utopia ''Concrete Utopia'' () is an upcoming South Korean disaster-thriller film directed by Um Tae-hwa and starring Lee Byun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of The Wilderness
The Battle of the Wilderness was fought on May 5–7, 1864, during the American Civil War. It was the first battle of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against General Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. The fighting occurred in a wooded area near Locust Grove, Virginia, about west of Fredericksburg. Both armies suffered heavy casualties, nearly 29,000 in total, a harbinger of a war of attrition by Grant against Lee's army and, eventually, the Confederate capital, Richmond, Virginia. The battle was tactically inconclusive, as Grant disengaged and continued his offensive. Grant attempted to move quickly through the dense underbrush of the Wilderness of Spotsylvania, but Lee launched two of his corps on parallel roads to intercept him. On the morning of May 5, the Union V Corps under Major General Gouverneur K. Warren attacked the Confederate Second Corps, commanded by Lieutenant General Richard S. Ewell, on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wilderness SSSI, Isle Of Wight
The Wilderness is a Site of Special Scientific Interest which is located on the Isle of Wight, England. It is close to the village of Rookley in the valley of the River Medina. The Wilderness is an area of wet woodland over a quite deep peat soil with adjacent areas of unimproved acid grassland and wet grassland. The SSSI covers an area of , the boundaries being reset in 1984 to exclude an area of grassland which had been artificially improved. Habitat Wilderness woodlands are not ancient woods and appear to have resulted from colonisation of trees on former grazing land and some parts of the site were open until relatively recently. The dominant species in the woodland are common oak ('' Quercus robur'' and sallow (''Salix cinerea''), with a few silver birch ('' Betula pendula'') and common alder ('' Alnus glutinosa'') making up the balance. The shrub layer is dominated by brambles ('' Rubus fruticosus'') and there are two areas of bog myrtle ('' Myrica gale''), numbering 20 b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
