The Call of the Wild

Published: Dec. 16, 2014, 11:03 p.m.

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Why do wild animals fascinate us? Why do millions of people self-identify as hunters, bird watchers, butterfly collectors? Why, on hikes, do I still go \\u201cOh, check it out!\\u201d every time a regular old lizard runs across my path, I narrowly miss stepping in coyote poop, or I hear a rattlesnake\\u2019s warning off in the bushes?

Because the wild calls. And we listen, or at least our subconscious does, because the wild is within us.

(This Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson, and is narrated by Brock Armstrong)

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