From Vincent at A Wayfarer’s Notes:
We find ourselves drawn to joy, truth, harmony, security, beauty, thrills,fulfilment, meaning, ecstasy. We don’t want to be stuck in some pointless, shitty situation. Such is our yearning for the pure wild honey of imagination, that we’re willing to risk being stung as we trace the sweet comb to some nest high up in a tree. If anyone can help take us there, we are their eager follower. This, in brief, is the human condition, expressed symbolically and according to ancient tradition, as when Moses promised a land flowing with milk and honey.
I got the wild honey idea from a legend relayed in Heart of the Hunter, by Laurens van der Post. Youngest of thirteen children born to an Afrikaner family on a farm, he first heard animal stories from his nurse Klara, whose mother was one of the almost-extinct Bushman people of South-West Africa. Later, after a life of adventure, heroic deeds and imprisonment by the Japanese, he was sponsored by the BBC to make a documentary series, The Lost World of the Kalahari.