Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet
Interpretation
Nature reflects a perfect balance and beauty that humanity should strive to replicate in its own practices.
In this quote, Terence McKenna emphasizes the idea that the natural world possesses an inherent balance, grace, and design that humanity often neglects. If we could learn from and adopt the principles of nature in our own lives and societal structures, particularly in how we manage the environment, we would have the potential to overcome the destructive impact we have had on our planet and work towards a more sustainable and harmonious existence.
In practice
This quote can be shared during Earth Day celebrations to inspire environmental awareness.
We want freedom. We want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. We want freedom from drought and weather, freedom from the movement of game, the growth of plants, freedom from control from mendacious popes and kings, freedom from ideology, freedom from want. This idea of freeing ourselves has become the compass of the human journey.
LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same since, nor will we ever be, for LSD demonstrated, even to skeptics, that the mansions of heaven and gardens of paradise lie within each and all of us.
A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.
Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.
If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.
It is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet. The mushroom visions and the transformation of the human image precipitated by space exploration are spun together. Nothing less is happening than the emergence of a new human order. A telepathic, humane, universalist kind of human culture is emerging that will make everything that preceded it appear like the stone age.
But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer.
Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.
O frost bitten blossoms, That are unfolding your wings From out the envious black branches. Bloom quickly and make much of the sunshine. The twigs conspire against you! Hear hem! They hold you from behind.
From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.
There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
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