When cell breaks occur some plants will also release complex polysaccharides—gums or concentrations of mucilaginous compounds—into the area. Gums immediately lower the sugar concentration in the damaged area, decreasing yeast and bacterial feeding; directly interfere with yeast feeding and bacterial growth because of their indigestibility; absorb t

There is a quasi-scientific fable that if you can get a frog to sit quietly in a saucepan of cold water, and if you then raise the temperature of the water very slowly and smoothly so that there is no moment marked to be the moment at which the frog should jump, he will never jump. He will get boiled. Is the human species changing its own environme

Resins, or complex combinations of terpenes, are released by some plants, such as evergreen trees, during cellular breakage. They are antimicrobial, antifungal, and antibacterial, acting against a wide range of organisms. Their flow into the wound in liquid form seals the cavity and then hardens, protecting it from further damage.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the Eyes of others only a Green thing that stands in the way. —William Blake, The Letters

They are not just a part of the fabric of thought: they are a part of the loom.

If the world is viewed as merely a machine, a bunch of soulless parts, there is little reason to care for it—it is merely a resource to be used. There is then no reason for the world to be experienced as alive, for the soul of a person to leave their body and intermingle with the soul of a tree or a stone, the soul of a landscape or a plant.

At the center of all things is spirit. In other words, there is a central underlying unifying force in the Universe that is sacred.

Later my mother caught me drinking wild water and told me it would kill me and began to instill in me a fear of the wildness of nature. And later still, my great-grandfather died and my days began to be filled with TV dinners and the flickering, half-intimacy of television. The years passed and the voices of my ancestors began to fade from memory;

Because all matter is made from the sacred, all things possess a soul, a sacred intelligence or logos.