As scientific understanding has grown, so our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in Nature and has lost his emotional “unconscious identity” with natural phenomena….No voices now speak to man from stones, plants, and animals, nor does he speak to them believing they can hear. His contact with Nature has gone, and with it has gone the profound emotional energy that this symbolic connection supplied.
—Carl Jung, Man and His Symbols
