Status Updates From Escapism

Always a pleasure to hang out with this book. Re-reading and thinking about nature studies now.

Western exceptionalism and statements without any evidence.

"Loss of innocence is acceptable if knowledge and wisdom take its place. But loss of wonder and creativity? Surprisingly, only Westerners from the seventeenth century onward have learned to esteem both. Other people tend to see wonder and creativity, or (more prosaically) curiosity and probing, as an immature phase that is best left behind."