The hermit flees company not because company is irrelevant but because it is all too relevant. Moreover he typically sees in his solitary environment some transformation of the humanity he left. In religious hermitage, this transformation is God. The anthropocentrism that Nietzsche saw everywhere does not evaporate when we leave other people physically. //The Duke in ‘As you Like it’ says of his forest exile, “this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.” People find heads, faces, and other parts of the body in landforms and social groupings in collection of artifacts. ~ Page 83