What He Said. (About the Value of Everything.)

-- from Alchemical Psychology: Old Recipes for Living in a New World by Thom F. Cavalli

Although I take some issue with his definition of "animism" & I have never perceived myself as a panthiest (also not quite exactly a panentheist, although much more the latter than the former), the premise that somehow from the perspective of "Nature" or the "Universe" "No one thing is any more important than another..." makes me want to say, "Yes, exactly." For us, as humans, there certainly seems to be some strong desire to adjudicate, classify & valuate by form, function, aesthetic, but isn't that what gets into so much trouble?