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'Wild' alludes to a process of self-organization that generates systems and organisms, all of which are within the constraints of--and constitute components of--larger systems that again are wild, such as major ecosystems or the water cycle in the biosphere. Wildness can be said to be the essential nature of nature. As reflected in consciousness, it can be seen as a kind of open awareness--full of imagination but also the source of alert survival intelligence. The workings of the human mind at its very richest reflect this self-organizing wildness.
So language does not impose order on a chaotic universe, but reflects its own wildness back.

-- Gary Snyder, A Place in Space