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The world is a fascinating, difficult place, and in order to take full advantage of what the planet has to offer, we need to see and hear natural things.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

I think that being in an extreme natural setting, and letting the natural world and what it's doing permeate your thoughts, is super-interesting and super-important.

Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.

Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.

Go out there and see where the world needs your touch. That kind of meaning not only makes you feel more connected to your environment on a local scale, but also to yourself - whether you can operate from something beyond the definition that others might place on you.

Some people are very good at that, communicating with the world; I'm not sure I'm suited to it.

Nowadays we have so many things that take our attention - phones, Internet - and perhaps we need to disconnect from those and focus on the immediate world around us and the people that are actually present.