…along with the other animals, the stones, the trees, and the clouds, we ourselves are characters within a huge story that is visibly unfolding all around us, participants within the vast imagination, or Dreaming, of the world.

~ David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World

Sunrise in Huangshan Mountains, China – photo from bigstockphoto.com