Were there no God, we would
be in this glorious world
with grateful hearts
and no one to thank!
~ Christina Georgina Rossetti
The survival of wilderness -- of places that we do not change, where we allow the existence of creatures we perceive as dangerous -- is necessary. Our sanity probably requires it. These places function, whether we intend them to or not, as sacred groves -- places we respect and leave alone, not because we understand well what goes on there, but because we do not.