ABSTRACT

This chapter summarises the potential destinations of what the author call the 'human movement'; its limitations, migrations, extinctions, crimes and the idea of the restoration of nature and the 'wild'. The potential displacement of the human animal from the pinnacle of the biological and evolutionary hierarchy and indeed the dissolution of that hierarchy has opened up new possibilities for human-animal-nature relations. It also signals a warning that the interventions into nature that began with the Neolithic revolutions and then with the obsession of the classical world with machinery may have to dramatically alter. Historically, the Archons of human communities are those who can claim a primary relationship to the land and the earth. In Classical Greece the concept of autocthony expressed this relationship of terrestrial power: those born of the earth, the indigenous peoples sometimes linked to the Gaia.