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When men do not run they are likely to die prematurely from dysfunction of the heart and vascular systems or from disabling chronic disease.
But it was probably long before anyone thought of pottery that the river was first perceived as a metaphor of destiny, the "clan river" of eternity connecting the three worlds. The bear signaled--perhaps seemed even to oversee--the arrival of the salmon. The salmon were human food too, which made the first link in the man-bear-river-salmon system a tangible reality. We can only guess how the river's eternal flow, the upstream movement of the miraculous fish from the depths of a watery matrix toward the almost ethereal spring at the headwaters, or their fate in the stomach of the bear might have stimulated the concept of reincarnation. In time, the spiritual forces represented by the physical realities could be grappled with by a shaman, who would travel the river to the ancestral downstream and the immortal upstream in a trance instead of a boat.
Who would want to live in a world that is just not quite fatal?
There is a secret person undamaged in every individual.
How are we to become native to this land?"
(as quoted in Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land by Amy Irvine)
Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies ... despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, swamped in the repeated personal crises of the aging preadolescent; all are familiar images of American society. They are signs of private nightmares of incoherence and disorder in broken climaxes where technologies in pursuit of mastery create ever-worsening problems - private nightmares expanded to a social level.
Men are born human. What they must learn is to be an animal. If they learn otherwise it may kill them, and kill life on the planet.
Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse flesh; it is a runner's body.
The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams.
Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer.
The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible.
The human cardiovascular system evolved as part of the physiology of [prehistoric] hunters, who ran for their lives.
