There’s something in us that knows we came here to give. The notion is the opposite of a consumer society. The consumer society says we came here to get, and we’re going to consume everything there is. But the old idea is that we came into the world gifted, and culture is our way of giving. That’s our way of being natural and participating in the natural world.

~ Michael Meade

Rattlesnake Lake, North Bend, WA – Aurora – photo by Chris Williams Exploration Photogrpahy, used with permission