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"It's difficult to view the world outside
our human context.
Staying alive and paying the bills both require our
attention squarely fixed on our own business.
Our sprawling cities and suburbs
are wonderful and frightening tributes to creative self-absorption.
In them, we
spend our micro-scheduled days bustling between work and the endless details of
our private lives, turning in our moments of rest to the buzzing distractions
of television and computers — all accelerating toward some ultimate, unseen
fulfillment of convenience and hyperreality.
Little encourages us to pause and
look around, much less question the end goal of all our busyness.
Anything
slower than the quick cuts of TV commercials is overwhelmed by our impatience
and short attention.
Unfortunately, we might be missing something important —
to our happiness and to our survival."
~ The Sacred Earth: Writers on
Nature & Spirit, 1998, New World Library
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