On morphic fields:

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels…I think that the ‘laws of nature’ are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.

~ Rupert Sheldrake

Merriman Falls, Quinault Rainforest – photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission