“the plant world constitutes a reservoir in which the volatile solar rays are skillfully frozen and made available for use.”

Plants and trees are the only ones capable of capturing solar energy and storing it as a chemical bond within the mineral matter of the planet. From this perspective, they have a veritable cosmogonic function: they engender our world minute by minute, they secrete the matter that discreetly circulates from body to body, from individual to individual, from species to species. This universal food is the sunlight housed within earthly matter. [...] Thanks to them, food is a secret trade in light that is consumed from body to body.

“We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human”