Thomas Berry in The Dream of the Earth, quoted in In the Absence of the Sacred by Jerry Mander, referring to our technological age:

During this period the human mind has been placed within the narrowest confines it has experienced since consciousness emerged from its Paleolithic phase. Even the most primitive tribes have a larger vision of the universe, of our place and functioning within it, a vision that extends to celestial regions of space and to interior depths of the human in a manner far exceeding the parameters of our world of technological confinement.