For long eras they too were imprisoned within the confines of a me-and-mine envisioning, and it took a major leap for them to conceive that other structures than the crystalline might have a form of awareness.
"Eight Keys to Eden"
Mark Irvin Clifton
A wilderness, with a radius of nearly a thousand kilometres, was evoked from the envisioning, praying, adventuring, and enduring of a few Frenchmen, led by fewer Frenchmen, who stood sooner or later all within the narrow circle that sweeps around the Sorbonne, but four kilometres in diameter.
"The French in the Heart of America"
John Finley
His eye envisioning a glorious future for the race, he wrote: The most stubborn living thing in this world, the most difficult to swerve, is a plant once fixed in certain habits.
"Autobiography of a YOGI"
Paramhansa Yogananda