The more we are surrounded by computer-based gadgets that make our lives feel safe and comfortable, the less dependent we believe we are on such things as a metaphor, image, or myth. But on the contrary, the more artificial our lives - artificial in that we are separated from the need to seek and obtain the primary necessities of life - the more vulnerable we are, because we are less able to fend for ourselves, and the less we feel impelled to understand nature and our relationship with it.引自第112页