Terence McKenna

We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.

Nature conserves, prefers novelty.

Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.

My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.

Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave birth to our son in prison in 2005.

I hate cliche.