This is not the world exhaustively extolled by previous generations. Here, we have more than blue skies and green trees.

Here are the windows that look onto distant corners of the earth and the shelves of infinite libraries and the hive mind and the lone voice and the endless knowers and the wild creatives.

This is our Nature.

UPDATE: this is a snippit from WORLD, which will appear in full, heavily revised, and much expanded October 1, 2012.