Biodiversity risks losing relevance in an increasingly urbanised, unequal and disembodied world. Beyond basic material needs, we might gain the greatest well-being from eudaimonia – the freedom to flourish and live meaningfully. Immersion in nature improves the fundamentals of eudaimonia: psychological, emotional and social health. This presents an opportunity to re-frame biodiversity from a passive entity needing to be saved by ‘good people’ to a catalyst in the quest to become good. Drawing on the capability approach, I propose that wild landscapes – defined as self-willed, ecologically complex communities comprising functioning ecosystems – are mediums that facilitate our search for meaning. Features of wild landscapes (organisms, habitats, structures) stimulate unique perception and experience that afford the elements of self-meaning (ideas, narratives, memories). Ecological processes (succession, disturbance, dispersal) generate dynamic perceptual experiences, which improves our ability to comprehend meaning by restoring cognitive functions and relational values. Functioning ecosystems continually create and permute features in space and time, instantiating ever-varying patterns from which to adapt meaning as our contexts and aspirations change. Wild landscapes thus provide infinite value for our freedom to become. As widening income inequity amplifies asymmetric power structures, increasing the agency of those who seek to improve society is one pathway to a sustainable future.

在日益城市化，不平等和无组织的世界中，生物多样性可能失去相关性。除了基本的物质需求外，我们可能会从Eudaimonia中获得最大的幸福-繁华和有意义地生活的自由。沉浸在自然中可以改善大自然的基本原理：心理，情感和社会健康。这提供了将生物多样性从需要由“好人”拯救的被动实体重新构架为寻求变得良好的催化剂的机会。利用能力方法，我建议将野生景观（定义为具有生态系统功能的自发性，生态复杂的社区）作为促进我们寻找意义的媒介。野生景观（生物，栖息地，建筑物）的特征激发了独特的感知和体验，这些体验和体验提供了自我意义的要素（想法，叙述，回忆）。生态过程（成功，干扰，分散）产生动态的知觉体验，通过恢复认知功能和相关价值来提高我们理解意义的能力。运转良好的生态系统会不断创建和置换时空特征，实例化不断变化的模式，以便随着我们的环境和愿望的变化而适应各种含义。因此，野生景观为我们的自由提供了无限的价值 实例化不断变化的模式，以便随着我们的上下文和愿望的变化而适应含义。因此，野生景观为我们的自由提供了无限的价值 实例化不断变化的模式，以便随着我们的上下文和愿望的变化而适应含义。因此，野生景观为我们的自由提供了无限的价值。随着收入不平等的加剧放大了不对称的权力结构，增加那些寻求改善社会的人的代理权是实现可持续未来的一种途径。