“Beginning in the late eighteenth century, people began to come back to the sea in search for a quality they felt to be missing in the new industrial environment, that something called wilderness.”(John R. Gillis, HUMANITIES, May/June 2013, Volume 34, Number 3)

Humans crave nature because of the manmade world filled with fumes and concrete has deprived them of being in their natural environment.

The sea, for the most part, has been ignored by humans and just used transactionally, never acknowledging the sea as an “it”. When industrial revolution begins to rapidly spread across land, nature is being destroyed. The coexistence of land plants and animals lived beside humans, with a life cycle. Now, that technology is involved, natures life cycles have run short due to humans at fault. Some humans sensed that emptiness and crave an outlet of purity, which is the sea. Humans didn’t dare to enter the sea but watched entrancingly the waves come and go from a dry distance on their land. The sea has now become an “it” in their eyes, an embodiment of “wilderness” that no man can tame. Rather to admire from afar the power she has and no manmade revolution will harness her. Humans crave nature because we all came from the same place, water. The ginormous sea being at the edge of our land, alluring us to keep seeking for “wilderness” that will fill our missing pure/untarnished quality,we humans crave.