“If you want any hope of actual intelligence, you had better have a deeply intimate relationship with nature, for it is there where every possible mode and form of intelligence find both inspiration and their sources. Nature is there as the opportunity for intelligence, which does not much resemble the burdensome pseudo-rationality that is the result of your common habits of language usage, memory, and thought. Nature will awaken you from this almost instantly, and there is little else with this power. Her agents are myriad, anciently intelligent, and profoundly intimate with both context and subject. Find them. Join them. Learn. Reawken the possibility of intelligence which was, so long ago, invested in you. Your cultures will erase it forever if you fail.” — an anonymous informant