Our putative greed for tangibility, for commodity, has blinded us to what exists in nature. Over time we came to see what was before us through lenses that amputated most of what was there in favor of what could be immediately converted into a asset; personal or economic. Unfortunately, in the same way that talk is not what is referred to, the extractable physical assets of nature are only slightly valuable compared to what they produce in their ordinary vitality and persistence. One of the products we ignore is intelligence; living places are permeated with anciently evolved streams of biocognitive intelligence which we can detect and participate in, directly. It is this participation in living intelligence that is the basis and function of our own. In our haste to acquire physical product, we have overlooked the actual treasure… which is priceless, irreplaceable, the birthplace of our own intelligence, and cannot be converted to a commodity. Human intelligence was born within a diverse living library. What will it become in a museum?