"There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant."

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Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

— John Kenneth Galbraith