“It’s a little bit hard to imagine an intelligent framework that presents the earth, nature, the sky, the moon, the stars, and life itself not as beings or places but as embodiments of universal intelligence which will not only recognize you as ‘of their kind’, but will teach and nurture you. And even though this idea is extremely difficult to imagine, it is impossible to imagine an idea that is at once more crucially true and less likely to be recognized than this.”

— an anonymous informant