The Apple Tree Apples and The Earth Peoples: Where There Are Rocks "Look, here is a tree in the garden and every summer is produces apples, and we call it an apple tree because the tree "apples." That's what it does. Alright, now here is a solar system inside a galaxy, and one of the peculiarities of this solar system is that at least on the planet earth, the thing peoples! In just the same way that an apple tree apples... "And as I said, if it is there, in us, it is symptomatic of the scheme of things. We are as symptomatic to the scheme of things as the apples are symptomatic of the apple tree, or the rose of the rose bush. The Earth is not a big rock infested with living organisms, anymore than your skeleton is bones infested with cells. The Earth is geological yes, but, this geological entity grows people, and our existence on the Earth is a symptom of the solar system and its balances. As much as the solar system in term is a symptom of our galaxy, and our galaxy in its term is a symptom of a whole company of galaxies." “Where there are rocks, watch out! Watch out, because the rocks are going to eventually come alive and they are going to have people crawling over them. It is only matter of time, just in the same way the acorn is eventually going to turn into the oak because it has the potentiality of that within it. Rocks are not dead. You see, it depends on what kind of attitude you want to take to the world… ...You cannot get an intelligent organism such as a human being out of an unintelligent universe. So in any lump of rock floating about in space, there is implicit human intelligence. Don’t differentiate yourself and standoff against this and say ‘I am a living organism in a world made of a lot of dead junk, rocks and stuff.’ It all goes together, those rocks are just as much you as your finger nails.” ~ Alan Watts #theearthispeopling #alanwatts #philosophy #evoltion #art #artist #instaart #illustrator #illustration #outsiderartist #outsiderart #infp #mixedmedia #digitalillustration #digitalart