the veins of the spirit

    

 

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Consciousness is reflected in a word as a sun in a drop of water. A word relates to consciousness as a living cell relates to a whole organism, as an atom relates to the universe. 

A word is a microcosm of human consciousness.


—Lev Vygotsky
Thought and Language, 2012, p.271 

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Plants are all chemists, tirelessly assembling the molecules of the world, and in their transactions with insects, birds, animals, and fungi, they find elaborate ways to defend themselves, to seduce pollinators, to confuse.


—Gary Snyder

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Every tree, every plant, has a spirit. People may say that the plant has no mind. I tell them that the plant is alive and conscious. 

A plant may not talk, but there is a spirit in it that is conscious, that sees everything, which is the soul of the plant, its essence, what makes it alive. The channels through which the water and sap move are the veins of the spirit.

—Pablo Amaringo

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