Consider the sound of water, a torrent or a creek – both can have a kind of white noise sound. Often, the smaller the more musical it becomes. A small creek is incredibly musical.
So to is the difference between Big and Little Dopamine, and qualiadelicness. On the other hand I had ten minutes this morning to stand with feet in the Pacific Ocean, with battalions of waves coming at and around me, and I was basically listening to a symphony in surround sound. Beautiful!
A watery, musical rill is intoxicating, like a good beer, but with nature you can’t really become addicted to it because it comes from ecosystems.
In the man-made world, having a sip of beer or something like that, we can have as much as we want. We can completely continue to build the dopamine day in and day out. Big dopamine, not good.
In ecosystems, Big dopamine pleasures come and go seasonally, while Little dopamine blisses continually refine and realign our focus, day in and day out.