We come from nature. Although we have isolated ourselves from it, building a habitat of concrete and covering our bodies in synthetic fabrics, we remain only a part of the world — and even though we sometimes elevate ourselves above the animal kingdom, to Mother Earth we are just one among many, and nature treats us the same as all her other children. Our teachers are older than us, yet they too learned from others, and there was never a first teacher who revealed the secret of life. Who we are is the result of the experiences of our ancestors, the people we observed while growing up. Like the egg from which a chicken hatched, there was always someone before us — just as lost as we are today. And though millennia of civilization have passed, it is enough to shed our clothes to become as naked, defenseless, and primal as the bodies of those whose spirit and history flow through our veins.
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