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 # Ray C. Anderson Foundation Blog: Ecocentricity - August

 


 

 Aug 1, 2014 10:00 AM ET

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[Ray C. Anderson Foundation Blog: Ecocentricity - August](http://www.raycandersonfoundation.org/articles/717-ecocentricity)

My family was almost out of sight. If I had shouted, I’m pretty sure they would have heard me, but in the vast expanse of that Colorado valley, I can’t be positive. Even if they could have, it would have taken them awhile to get to me.

 

I don’t know what caused me to wander off on my own. Maybe I didn’t go wandering off enough as a child and this was my inner eight-year-old making up for it. Maybe the three-hour flight and subsequent four-hour drive crammed in with my family made me do it. Maybe it was a simple desire to be alone with my thoughts. That last one probably hits pretty close to the mark.

 

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