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…
