The neighborhood I grew up in had this fence that surrounds the watershed. And if you go on the other side of that fence, there's nothing until the North Pole and down to Siberia. It's the absolute cutoff point between man and nature.

North America can easily fragment quickly as did the Eastern Bloc in 1989.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?

People don't have dominion over Nature. it's gone beyond that. Human beings and the world are now the same thing. The future and whatever happens to you after you die - it's all melted together. Death isn't the escape hatch the way it used to be.

An Expedition to the North Pole.