Relentlessly, it seems, we examine and re-examine ourselves and our complex relationships to one another and the ongoing dramas of our lives, while forgetting the context in which all relationships take place. It's the buzz-whatever beeps or flickers insistently enough-that claims our attention. And we unwittingly evolve to become what we most attend. How easy it is to believe ourselves distinct and apart from our tidy notions of "environment" and "natural world." Yet we cannot insist upon this separation without damaging consequences like those that now, equally insistently, threaten us....