"You're looking at what is called a book.
You conceive of it as separate from other things.
However, it's intimately connected with everything
else in the universe... This book is not merely this book,
it is the sun as well. If not for the sun, trees would not
grow to produce the pulp to make the paper.
And we cannot forget Ts'ai Lun, who invented paper
in the second century, or Johann Gutenberg, who found a way to apply movable type to a printing press in the fifteenth century. And intermixed with the trees
and the sun and creative human minds are other things. We cannot ignore language, time, soil, plants, animals, emotions, or thoughts. We cannot forget the rain, or even the stars, or the galaxies of stars. Indeed,
there is nothing we can point to, or even imagine,
that does not find its way into this book."
(Steve Hagen)
