Wildlife refers to the animals
and related plants in a state of nature, or the species of fauna that are not
domesticated or tame and are also indigenous to an area, region or range. The
expression is relatively recent in origin dating to Richard Jefferies' 1879
work discussing the various animal species in the Wiltshire Downs in southern
Britain. Jefferies insisted, “glance into the hedgerow, the copse, or stream,”
and “there" you find "nature’s children as unrestrained in
their wild, free life as they were in the …backwoods of primitive England.” The
term wildling is much older, however, as is wildness from which wildlife is
derivative, being used for example by William Shakespeare to refer to those
qualities of living things not under the influence or control of humans.
Charles Darwin when referring to artificial selection... More »
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