ABSTRACT
The self-determined confrontation with what is fundamentally different, wild, extreme, risky, intensive and so forth supports aspects of self-interpretation in individuals. The sense of nature of the eighteenth century does not exhaust itself in the needs of self-seekers looking for beautiful, soul-soothing nature to form a symbiosis which might heel or compensate for their suffering from society. Nature or the described chronotope seem to release this core and at the same time offer actors the opportunity to mind it and realise it. Sojourns in nature were successfully reattached to the world of work. The extent of reduction of fear of wild nature did not make it more beautiful, but it made it interesting, so much so that scenes of wild nature were picked up by European painting, poetry, music and garden architecture and became a European issue.
