For my friends the arrieros (mule drivers), that sense of belonging must be even stronger, but in the constant motion of the city, struggling through traffic, riding up and down in elevators, going from the office to the shopping center, taking refuge in our air-conditioned homes, the word nature usually brings to mind a distant reality, the dream of vacations, associated at best with relaxing on the weekend. We think that nature is outside of us, and while we don’t go to meet it, we let it peek timidly out of the flowerpots decorating our balconies or from an aquarium with fish swimming back
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