What it [the whole world is there on the screen] instead often leads to is a brand of knowledge that’s thousands of miles wide and half a centimetre deep: a pond-skating mentality of misleading screenshots and thinly gleaned opinions and out-of-context sound bites and people reading hastily between the lines while forgetting the vital thing you also need to do when practising that skill is to read the lines themselves. The idea of getting to know an area of limited size extremely well works as an antidote to this, and even in a very small area there is always more to know.
An Englishman writes of his relationship with the landscape he inhabits, and of his pets, not in mystical terms but with reference to the everyday that's sometimes infused with the other-worldly.