Barry Lopez on the Cure for Our Existential Loneliness and the Three Tenets of a Full Life

Barry Lopez on the Cure for Our Existential Loneliness and the Three Tenets of a Full Life

"Existential loneliness and a sense that one’s life is inconsequential, both of which are hallmarks of modern civilizations, seem to me to derive in part from our abandoning a belief in the therapeutic dimensions of a relationship with place."

Place and a mind may interpenetrate till the nature of both is altered, the great Scottish mountaineer and poet Nan Shepherd wrote as she reflected on the relationship between nature and human nature… [+5174 chars]
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