“Having a close friend in a position of great power is an asset. Generally, people think of other people in positions of social, personal or financial power when I mention this. It is true, as well. We humans live in human cultures, and power is largely embodied in modes appropriate to those cultures.

What most people don’t know is that every animal and plant is in a position of power whose depth and breadth are astonishing. And from their position, your own powers are also miraculous. So, effectively, there is a magnetic incentive for living beings and places to form intimate relationships with humans who have remembered how to do this, and the benefits that accrue to all involved are profound in every case. Even a world is this. Even more.”

— an anonymous informant