recognizing that suburbs life, the hunting and country clubs, the summer camps, going out into "the woods", camping, the seeking of some consolation and/or reverie in nature... are in fact embodiments, realizations, of ideas in which most are happy to blithely pursue their life, liberty and...happiness" unreflectively... or at most semi-conscious in and of the ideas, in thought, of what they are doing, is a solitarizing awareness and awakeness.
(reflection on Peter J. Schmitt's, 1969, Back to Nature: The Arcadian Myth in American Culture)
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