There's not a lot of room for either in the malarial swamps of the Asmat or in the chilling winds of Tibet, but they have, nevertheless, through time and ritual, forged a traditional mystique of the Earth that is based not on the idea of being self-consciously close to it, but on a far subtler intuition: the idea that the Earth itself can only exist because it is breathed into being by human consciousness.
Nema dovoljno mjesta za nijedno u malarijskim barama Asmata ili u hladnim vjetrovima Tibeta, ali su oni, ipak, kroz vrijeme i rituale, prenosili tradicionalne tajne Zemlje koje nisu utemeljene na ideji o samo-svjesnoj bliskoj vezi s planetom, već na mnogo suptilnijoj intuiciji: ideja da Zemlja može postojati jedino ako joj ljudska svijest udahne život.