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The Wild Has More Meaning Than We Do: The Millions Interviews Deborah Fleming

Deborah Fleming’s essay collection, Resurrection of the Wild: Meditations on Ohio’s Natural Landscape was nominated for the 2020 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award in the Art of the Essay category. The only finalist published by a small press, Fleming’s book is devoted to exploring natural, agricultural, and wild regions of her native Ohio.

Fleming spoke with The Millions recently about wildness and cultivation, the relationship between humans and animals, and much more.

As I was reading , I thought about a quote from in response to a question asked by magazine in 1988: “What is the meaning of life?” Part of her response was: “We are here

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