Perhaps what is missing from the common understanding of the word 'wilderness' is a recognition that the deep character of any place, the foundational structures of the physical world, can't simply be drained away. Unruly, unassimilable wilderness is, in fact, everywhere. In some liminal places, like the Zone, this co-presence of chaos and order is present like a bright fog.

— Blue Lake by David Sornig (Page 39)