I’ve returned to downtown Buenos Aires after three weeks in the Patagonian wilderness, and suddenly, I’m a wild animal again. It’s in a big city that I’m reminded what savages we are. In beautiful wide open natural spaces, where the air smells sweet and we have enough of everything, humans are positively genteel.
In travel industry brochures and websites, nature has cleverly appropriated the word “wild” to describe forest bathing or snow-hiking or kayaking. This strikes me as unfair on cities, because in my
