https://medium.com/ill-ixi-lli/messenger-at-the-window-a419a840c432

“Insects such as bees and wasps are provocatively sensitive to a variety of environmental, relational and molecular signals. Their astonishing abilities of flight, orientation and molecular detection inspire and inform many of our related technological pursuits. Nearly all of those pursuits are devastating them and our own bodies and minds, in part because we do not see relationships at all. We see products. Functions.

Commodities.

If you are curious, and understand this, you will immediately recognize that the entire array of terrestrial organisms (and environments) comprise unimaginably sophisticated webs of uniquely intelligent biosensing, and that their activities and development are expressions of these intelligences. In every real sense, their presence and activity is a metalanguage… a living metalanguage, which is at once ‘about itself’ yet also is the nature of thought, language, knowledge, metaphor, sensing… and discovery.”