I particularly enjoyed the last two paragraphs of the first chapter and the first through third of the second. Too long to quote here without being burdensome, but it really brought up two things for me.

1. The notion of how language displays just how disconnected we are from that original sense of being and interconnected-ness. It really connects with me in terms of the current fossil-fuel crises throughout north America and how indigenous communities have phrases that perfectly describe how important water and the land is that are things you literally never hear in English outside of these moments when they're translated from people who aren't as far removed from the land as a community.

2. The attack on the logic that Civilization itself is unarguably "progress" in terms of a better state of being that is inevitable because of its inherent betterment of all.