Rewilding is the project of returning land to complexity — restoring the predators, the corridors, the productive chaos that managed landscapes exclude — on the theory that biodiversity is not a luxury but the infrastructure on which all other life depends. It is, in ecological terms, what Nasreddin did to over-organized thinking: not destroying the structure, but reintroducing the element that keeps it honest. Order without wildness becomes brittle; the rewilders know this about ecosystems, and it is equally true of minds.
Each step builds on the last.