Why do I feel that my self is more connected to a tree and less connected to a parking lot?

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• The relatedness through which I feel that my own self and the tree in the field are directly connected is the most fundamental relation that there is.quote0.800
  Load-bearing statement of the primacy of relatedness.
• The self and the tree are entangled; the connection is a real, non-mental entity that exists in the same substance.claim0.776
  The core of the relatedness argument.
• I feel more potent in myself, not in relation to society, but in relation to the small things I do every day, when I am in the home, and when I come home from work.quote0.748
  Jose Tapia's testimony about life change in Mexicali.
• Because it is so deeply connected its parts to one another, itself to its surroundings, it creates the sensation that nothing is separate, that everything is in harmony.claim0.747
  The causal claim that deep connectedness creates the sensation of universal harmony.
• The feeling that there is more life in one case than another is correlated with a structural difference in the things themselves, which can be made precise and measured.claim0.743
  Forward‑looking claim that the life quality has an objective basis, to be demonstrated later.
• As centers deepen, the personal feeling of the structure increases; if personal feeling does not increase, the structure is not really getting deeperclaim0.735
  Provides a phenomenological criterion for judging whether structural deepening is genuine
• The more you use the properties, the more you find they correspond to your feeling, giving permission to liberate your feeling.claim0.731
• There is a direct connection between the living structure of the world and the achieved person-ness we experience in ourselves.claim0.731