“I appreciate the utility of power in the winter,
but many people seldom see a sunrise or sunset nowadays; they’re looking at a
screen. What will this do? The Northern Lights, the Big Dipper — are they
eclipsed like the multiplication tables? There was a magnetism to aurora
borealis or a cradle moon, to spring peepers’ sleigh-bell sound or spindrift
surfing toward shore under cumulus clouds, that galvanized delights in us
almost Paleolithic.
“Are we stunted if we lose it, a deflation
associated with migrating indoors to cyberspace, Facebook instead of faces?” —Essayist-naturalist
Edward Hoagland, “Living Life Secondhand,”
The New York Times, November 9, 2014
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