“When you consider a person has to be free of a fear of fire (pyrophobia), a fear of confined spaces (claustrophobia), a fear of being alone (isolophobia), a fear of heights (acrophobia), a fear of steep slopes and stairs (bathmophobia), a fear of being forgotten or ignored (athazagoraphobia), a fear of the dark (nyctophobia), a fear of wild animals (agrizoophobia), a fear of birds (ornithophobia), a fear of thunder and lightning (brontophobia), a fear of forests (hylophobia), a fear of wind (anemophobia), a fear of clouds (nephophobia), a fear of fog (homichlophobia), a fear of rain (ombrophobia), a fear of stars (siderophobia), and a fear of the moon (selenophobia), then it’s little wonder most people aren’t meant to be lookouts.”
From: Fire Season: Field Notes From a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors
Read: While looking out the tinted windows of one office tower and into the mirrored windows of another, and imagining a career that would keep me outdoors, always, and suffering not at all a fear of open spaces (agoraphobia), a fear of work (ergophobia) or a fear of time (chronophobia).
