Finding a more useful umwelt
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Finding a more useful umwelt
The Art of Looking: Eleven Ways of Viewing the Multiple Realities of Our Everyday Wonderland
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
If you notice anything, it leads you to notice more and more.
Mary Oliver • Dream Work
The grids of perception that compose your world give you the world picture as you (underlined) experience it because your physical senses put you in a certain position within the entire grid. Animals, for example, while part of your experience, are also “tuned into” that grid at another level.
Jane Roberts • Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment, Volume One
But for me, as a person for whom narrow focus is against my instincts, the most remarkable thing about it is how rich it feels. My life these days is small and boring. I bicycle across the same fields every day, I notice how the wind turbines turn to face the wind, I rarely travel, and I spend my spare time staring at a Word document. Annie Dillard... See more