Rewild Me.

Patrick Hanlon
5 min readSep 15, 2023

Rewilding got its pioneer kickoff when architects James Corner, Piet Oudolf and Charles Renfro suggested planting wildflowers atop the former train line in Meatpacking area of Manhattan. Seeing patches of wildflowers growing for 22 blocks on The High Line provided a perfect paradox: portions of New York City’s ultradense urbanity mixed with ‘where the wild things are’ revelry. Now even common folk can walk amidst daisies and butterflies. Nature endures. Build a teepee.

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Patrick Hanlon

Author of “Primal Branding,” “The Social Code,” writer on Forbes, Medium, Inc., East Hampton Star. Founder primalbranding.co