Why do I only see nature through a window?

A man was proud of his window. It was so clean, he said, that birds forgot it was there. One day a bird flew straight into it and dropped to the ground, stunned. 'See how clean my glass is,' the man said to his neighbor. The neighbor looked at the bird and said nothing. Glass is good at one thing: showing you the view without the weather, the dirt, or the bother of going outside. That is exactly the trouble. The window works so well that looking has quietly replaced going. You see the tree from the car, the sky from the office, the garden from the couch, and somewhere along the way, seeing became the whole relationship. With a pod or team, the trap gets a second layer: everyone privately assumes someone else will suggest actually going out. So the group agrees, in theory, that nature is important — and then meets indoors to discuss it, forever, through the glass.