Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.
The relationship of humans to nature. We are sadly divorced from it.
Neuroligacally, human beings haven't caught up with today's overstimulating environment. Getting kids out in nature can make a difference.
If anything, the way that you feel is a direct indicator of how far we've come from our symbiotic relationship with nature. In that way, when someone hangs a mirror to every single blemish that's on us, it makes you really reassess what your morals are.
I should like to raise the question whether the inevitable stunting of the sense of smell as a result of man's turning away from the earth, and the organic repression of the smell-pleasure produced by it, does not largely share in his predisposition to nervous diseases.
Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.
I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.
If a child never sees the stars, never has meaningful encounters with other species, never experiences the richness of nature, what happens to that child?
We're live in a world that has, in many ways, become desensitized and unable to empathize with other cultures and species. The dangerous part is that we objectify others and have somehow removed ourselves, mentally, from the very planet we inhabit.
