People's need to categorize...

What is up with us? People are so odd, yes, I suppose I'm also speaking of myself. What is it that drives us to need labels for everything? What drives us to need fences, and plots and boundary markers on a planet we have no business pretending to own?
"We cut our piece of reality into boxes, into rooms, into spaces carved by our designs, set by our own selections, and imagined to be whole worlds--entire universes. We put up walls, and because we no longer see the world, we pretend it is the outside world that is the illusion. The things we create and build are models of illusions about reality. They wall off pieces of the world that WE WANT the world to be. We fence land into plots, into pices that they are not, trying to make little worlds that we can hold because we are too small to hold the sky and too limited to understand even one small cluster of stars." ~ Evan Harris Walker, The Physics of Consciousness .

Here are some images that come to mind, from larger than imaginable, to small enough to carry.

It's almost unimaginable to think. I wonder if it is an attempt to defy entropy, or merely an attempt to feel less small and less insignificant. I do not know...but I am curious.

It isn't just with space that we label, plot, covet and hold. It's with people, animals, trees, fluids, foods...everything. There is nothing we see that we do not feel compelled to label or understand. I'm out of time....something else we've broken down into measurable units...