Comments on: … the universe is full of radiant suggestion http://www.runningland.com/2006/10/07/the-universe-is-full-of-radiant-suggestion/ wisdom and tripe from a lifetime runner Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:38:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Jason http://www.runningland.com/2006/10/07/the-universe-is-full-of-radiant-suggestion/#comment-6037 Jason Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:34:39 +0000 http://www.runningland.com/2006/10/07/the-universe-is-full-of-radiant-suggestion/#comment-6037 It saddens me that nature is so often left out of modern literature. As Scott Russel Sanders wrote in The Ecocriticism Reader, “The boxes that shut us off from nature have become more perfect, more powerful ... Today, the typical adult reader leaves a humming house in the morning, drives an air-conditioned car to a sealed office, works eight hours under flourescent lights, ... enters the house through the garage and locks the door.” Another reason it's great to be a runner - the outside world becomes for us a place of refuge and sanctuary, not a foreign and dangerous thing. It saddens me that nature is so often left out of modern literature. As Scott Russel Sanders wrote in The Ecocriticism Reader, “The boxes that shut us off from nature have become more perfect, more powerful … Today, the typical adult reader leaves a humming house in the morning, drives an air-conditioned car to a sealed office, works eight hours under flourescent lights, … enters the house through the garage and locks the door.”

Another reason it’s great to be a runner - the outside world becomes for us a place of refuge and sanctuary, not a foreign and dangerous thing.

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