Land and water are not really separate things, but they are separate words, and we perceive through words.

Notice how people can sit for hours and talk to one another, but call us to pray and we find it to be great difficulty. Why is this so? 1) Lack of desperation (realizing our dependence on God), 2) The wrestlings of the flesh, 3) Lack of faith to believe not only that God hears us but that He will move on our behalf.

Fermentation may have been a better invention than fire.

Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.