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  • I grew up in northern Minnesota on 40 acres of wooded land 20 miles from the nearest town, and so the wilderness was home. It was not an unsafe place. I had that advantage. But there are so many representations of the wilderness being dangerous. You know, depictions of wild animals attacking people. It's like, "No, we kill those animals in far greater numbers than they kill us."

    "'Wild’s' Cheryl Strayed Becomes One With Reese Witherspoon". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. November 2014.