“Like a woven basket or a clay pot, a story is a container. It provides a shape for holding some character, some act or insight, some lesson we can’t afford to lose.” (Scott Russell Sanders)

Sanders says we are a storytelling species, that we make sense of the world through myths and stories.

Aristotle, two thousand years before Sanders, says “A man who is puzzled and wonders thinks himself ignorant (whence even the lover of myth is in a sense a lover of Wisdom, for the myth is composed of wonders.)”

(The words from Scott Russell Sanders are from the chapter entitled “The Warehouse and the Wilderness” in A Conservationist Manifesto. p 74. Indiana University Press, 2009. The words from Aristotle are taken from his Metaphysics, 982b, and the translation is from The Basic Works of Aristotle, Richard McKeon, ed. New York: Random House, 1941). That phrase “love of wisdom” is another way of saying “philosopher.”