Wander and Ponder

Sand People

We're literally a walking composition of our environment. We become products of the materials we consume, we are our nutrition. Perhaps this explains the strong and indomitable affinity that indigenous tribes harbour for their local environment, they are not only participants in their environment, they are their immediate environment.

The consequence of non-localized food is an apparent disconnect from the environment. We seem to be aware of the disconnect yet we're still snared by the disconnect, the evidence of this surrounds us, it's interwoven into our societal infrastructure. We value jobs above environmental stability, money above health, material above self. The fundamental structure of our society clearly indicates that we've gone slightly insane. The reason our insanity isn't blatant is because we create cultural consensus which enables behaviours that would otherwise appear ludicrous. We're literally allowed to temporarily poison ourselves (alcohol consumption) yet not allowed to relax with cannabis. We've literally allowed ourselves to meddle and menace with ecosystems in the pursuit of jobs.. If you remove your cultural blinders and just observe our actions as an animal of the environment, this is indisputably insane...

I'm not asserting our disconnect with the Earth is solely and directly attributed to our non-localized diet but I am suggesting it may play a key role. When you're foraging and eating within a radius that you are capable of travelling within, you feel the connection. If you're at least moderately active you can see and feel the difference your nutrition makes, and if you were a forager within your environment you'd have to be moderately active. You'd notice that when you eat a particular berry your energy soars. 

The molecules that comprise our entire form are constructs of our nourishment, our cells reproduce with the given materials. It would be logical to assert that if you're molecules are a construction of your surroundings, you'd have a fundamental connection with the area you inhabit. Your environment would come to rely on you to eat the berries, receive the nourishment and subsequently excrete the seed in another location, which enables the berry bush to extend its reach. You would become reliant on your environment to provide the nourishment. This is the symbiosis of life.