Reaction to "First the Forest"

“First the Forest” talks about the ways that humans were/used to be connected with the forest and how now we view the forest as a dangerous place, harboring things of evil. Robert Harrison says that human beings were free underneath the canopy of the forests, then the lightning came and we were then aware of the sky, he says that this sparks our imagination. This could mean that we are all fine with what is around us and then the minute that something new is introduced we create an explanation that works for our world, this means that our imaginations are used a lot. However in this text also the author seems to say that the forest was the only place that the humans felt that they could be wild and free to do what they pleased and not be minded by the consequences and the implications. He then proceeds to describe freedom and it actually seems pretty horrible because of how crude and primitive life seems. Then Harrison goes on to talk about how the humans felt the need to move “away” from the forests, but they continued to affiliate themselves with the forest through family trees and being born from the trees because their ancestors were buried there. Then the need to clear a piece of their forest to calm the chaos and to raise a family sanely is discussed, this would mean a life without freedom.