Not for the sake of our health, though it's often presented that way, but because it's an escape from the human anthill. It's an escape from our own competition, and our own dramas. And that's why ween joy looking at glaciers and oceans, and contemplating the Earth from outside its perimeters, etc. We like to feel in contact with something that is non-human, and that is so deeply important to us.
"Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much."
The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
"The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth."
The subject matter is autobiographical, it's all to do with hope and memory and sensuality and involvement, really.