It's not just for its influence on us, but to know that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence.
I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.