Because the quality of living with nature and allowing it to manifest itself is different than the quality of living in a city, especially a dense city.
I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.
Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. Today, I'm not sure if I know more than four phone numbers by heart. And that's probably more than most.

