Wild adventure: a restorying

The term 'wild' is being applied in an increasingly wide range of contexts from places, to, children and pedagogies. Providers of experiences in nature originally chose 'adventure' to capture something about their approach to the landscape. From nature's perspective, 'adventure' typically constructs the world as of instrumental value in order to build identity and character and provide opportunities for socialisation, maturation, escape and renewal. 'Wild', on the other hand, typically describes an approach that understands nature as of intrinsic value and with which people have a two-way relationship and an ethical responsibility. This chapter considers to what degree a renewal of ‘adventure’ experiences as ‘wild’ experiences can contribute to a change in human nature relations. The shift, is widespread in western cultures, may indicate a significant shift in human nature relations, one that could help change cultural narratives about nature and affect human responses to and engagement with nature including the promotion of pro-environmental values and behaviours.