"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

02 April 2018

Hide.

Indoors and Outdoors: The human and the non-human.  Privacy and space.  The manmade and the natural.  All that is the product and projection of man and his mind, vs. all that procedes, underlies and surrounds man and his mind.  To go truly Outdoors is to escape for a while the narrow limits of prvious human experience (the cutural apparatus) and to enter a world that is new, different, much greater, and of course largely incomprehensible.  A church, e.g., is a place in which to hide from the real world.  That's why they're so comforting.

Edward Abbey

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