When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness.

Embrace your death. . . . Cherish your awareness of death as a gift from the universe.

A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this means is that we must address trees as we must address all things, confronting them in the awareness that we are in the presence of numinous mystery.

By pursuing your allurements, you help bind the universe together. The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion.

Humans enter this world and awaken to a simple truth: We must find our story with this great epic of being.

The universe is an inexhaustible celebration of ultimate mystery!

That is our larger destiny: to allow the Earth to organize in a new way, in a manner impossible all the billions of years prior to humanity