“Like plants we need to recycle. On a cosmic scale we are no more mobile than plants. Until this point in history we have modeled our more successful economic systems on animal predation. Animals can potentially move on to another resource when they exhaust the one at hand. Since they can move to new food sources, they potentially have unlimited resources. Plants are fixed. They cannot easily move to richer nutrients, or leave an area if they foul or deplete it. They must recycle well.”
Terence McKenna wrote that, in an essay called Plan, Plant, Planet.
It’s radical, beautiful, inspiring, and, for at least one sentence, unintentionally hilarious (in my opinion at least).
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