The World Needs Hermits and Bear Worship

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The animals we once feared now fear us, either running from extinction, staring from enclosures, or begging in territory lost. Nature has long been entwined with human spirituality, from animal worship to rituals around weather and seasons.

Now that nature is tamed and declawed, what role does our ancient ruler play in the lives of modern man? In Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man, Timothy Treadwell's life as an outsider in a nature-second, human-first world tells a story about something a little wild that still lurks within modern man.

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