" As Jay Griffiths observes in her book Wild, René Descartes and the rationalists of the late-seventeenth and eighteenth centuries cultivated “a hatred of ‘enthusiasm,’ for its emotional, wild surges of knowing were too natural, too bodily, too animal. Rationalism demanded superiority to, and separation from, nature and nature’s ways of knowing. "

― Linda Kohanov , The Power of the Herd: Building Social Intelligence, Visionary Leadership, and Authentic Community through the Way of the Horse