alienation from our selves, manifest destiny (harrison)

We do not intrinsically belong to the natural order (if we did we would not need to discover the facts of life)... our destiny as excursioners on the earth.... Excursions into a world where we are at once estranged and alive, or better, alive in our estrangement.

- from Forests: The Shadow of Civilization by Robert Pogue Harrison, page 222