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.

Each being in the universe yearns for the free energy necessary for survival and development. Each existence resists extinction. The consequent history of violence in the universe is as inevitable as the gravitational pull between the Earth and the Sun.

I flush with heaving passion's strange delight, Yet find contentment lost in appetite.

Four billion years ago the planet Earth was molten rock; now it sings opera!

Our ancestry streches back through the life forms and into the stars, back into the beginnings of the primeval fireball. This universe is a single multiform energetic unfolding of matter, mind, intelligence and life.

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

The universe shivers with wonder in the depths of the human.