Ants

I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way.

- Lewis Thomas

Insects

We are not like the social insects. They have only the one way of doing things and they will do it forever, coded for that way. We are coded differently, not just for binary choices, go or no-go. We can go four ways at once, depending on how the air feels: go, no-go, but also maybe, plus what the hell let's give it a try.

- Lewis Thomas

Sky

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

- Buddha

Plant

“Every plant is an individual.

Wrong again. We are not individuals at all, we are all connected. We are individuals the way each blossom on an apple tree is an individual.”

― Dale Pendell, Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft

Sunset

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.