Living closer to nature, one becomes awed by the resilience of things. One sees cycles of change in which things freeze and become destroyed, and then grow back and return the next year.
Further from nature, a broken window for example expresses fragility: once it breaks it stays broken, it does not grow back, except through the efforts of someone grumpy and upset that the window has been broken.
We've learned an anxiety of permanence: that a given change is final and can only be reversed by someone with a will stronger than our own, which we are subject to, and are likely to fear.
We've forgotten that it is a fact of nature that things come and go.
