I have always been more interested in the world that surrounds me than in myself.
Toddlers and young children do not need God to wonder at the mysterious world that surrounds them.
Despite some of the horror stories within, Lo and Behold is fundamentally positive about the technological world that surrounds us.
They are what intelligent, concerned citizens ought to want to know about the world that surrounds them.
In Japanese Buddhism, we don't separate a self from its environment, and cleaning expresses our respect for and sense of wholeness with the world that surrounds us.
With his command of English, Hector is now a probe into the future, and into the alien yet alluring world that surrounds him.
And she reminded the audience that her father, 40 years ago, wanted "not only to make better the world that surrounds us but to dream of something more".
But for others, gardening is not an especially sedentary pastime, it is a vital and energising involvement with the world that surrounds us.
But the words he used then sound prophetic today: "The world that surrounds us is filled with conflict -- war, religious strife, economic problems.
And the family is no longer a haven; all too often a center of dysfunction, it has become one with the heartless world that surrounds it.
We have become a country of consumers who increasingly don't have the dexterity to build, maintain or repair the technical world that surrounds us.
