The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.
“If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.”
“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.”