Full sensory participation in weather requires leaving shelter

Evidence

After hours in the penetrating rain, I am suddenly damp and chilled and the path back to the cabin is a temptation. I could so easily retreat to tea and dry clothes, but I cannot pull myself away. However alluring the thought of warmth, there is no substitute for standing in the rain to waken every sense—senses that are muted within four walls, where my attention would be on me instead of all that is more than me. Inside looking out, I could not bear the loneliness of being dry in a wet world. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1089

Categorization

• XREF: Directly supports the Soundscape course’s listening-as-method thread: immersion over observation-from-inside. Strong quote for Eco-Justice pedagogies of relationship. — connects to: Humans require both enclosed refuge and open prospect for wellbeing — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1514

Broader Connections

• Humans require both enclosed refuge and open prospect for wellbeing #expands (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1514