Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants
Terence McKennaLife, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.
Terence McKennaNature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
Terence McKennaAnd what we're looking toward is a moment when the artificial language structures which bind us within the notion of ourselves are dissolved in the presence of the realization that we are a part of nature. And when that happens, the childhood of our species will pass away, and we will stand tremulously on the brink of really the first moment of coherent human civilization.
Terence McKenna