"There is a complete attitude of the man before nature, which is the point of
common reference for his knowledge, his abilities, his work, his specific
form of satisfying the insolvable need to obtain sustenance; but which is
also present in the projection of his dreams, in his capacity to imagine and not
to simply observe in nature, in the willingness to dialogue with nature, in
his fears and hopes in the face of forces outside human control."
"In the end this is occuring in all of the cultures, except in the Western
culture: they try to separate and specialize distinct aspects of this total
relation:
the poet sings to the moon;
the astronomer studies it;
the painter recreates forms and colors of its passage;
the agronomist knows the earth;
the mystic prays...
and there is no form, in the Western logic, that unites everything in a total
attitude, as the Indian does it."
Source: Chiapas-l List