” To all my friends and family currently trying to ‘save the world’ by various political means, I would like to suggest the following:

Let’s try a thought experiment. Sit down, close your eyes, and try to imagine you wake as a member of a coyote family, snug with your children in a burrow. What do you envision your day will be like? Take your time, wander through the life of you as a coyote. Now, recoup and try the same thing again, except that this time you wake up as a whitetail deer, nestled in the tall grass, with several companions nearby. Walk through the forest as a deer, use your nose, your ears. Now close your eyes a third time and imagine you wake up as a raven, with your mate roosting on the branch beside you. What is raven life like on a winter’s day? Explore it. Finally, recoup one more tome and try very, very hard…

Imagine you wake up as a human being, a natural human being, not of the past, but of today. Wake up as a real human being in our contemporary world… A human being who, like the coyote and raven, has not been corrupted by secondary identities… Just be human for once. What is your day like in this body?

Once you’ve considered everything above, wake up for real. Find that you actually ARE a human being, right now. Drop your petitions, your protest signs, your information leaflets, your voter’s ballots. Drop those teachings from your cultures that are obvious fictions. Open your senses to the diverse life world around you, comprised of so many other species. They’ve all been waiting for you to remember yourself. Engage with them, with this life. Be a real human being. That’s how you will save the world”

— an anonymous informant