“There is more and more accessible intelligence in a single tree than in all the machines your species will ever produce. A forest is a mind. For most of our history, we could access that mind in a process which involves the remembering and practice of anciently evolved intimacies whose superficial appearance of poetic or metaphoric structure belie their actual depth and capacity. Before we had machines, we queried -forests-. I am telling you that a forest can resolve any quandry you will set it, faster than any machine or any human agency.

If you want to understand what it means to be human, you must recover the ancient languages of communion that are your gateway to the actual inheritance implict in your human incarnation. It has nothing to do with the stories on sale all around you. Forget them. Go and ask the woods. Ask the birds, the insects, the animals. Ask the living places. Listen. And reply. Nothing computes better than nature, except nature in absolute hypersymmetry. Around here, that looks like: forest.”

— an anonymous informant