Nature As A Minded Entity

"There is a great insight which our culture is deliberately
designed to suppress, distort, and ignore: that Nature is
a minded entity; that Nature is not simply the random
flight of atoms through electromagnetic fields; that Nature
is not the empty, despiritualized lumpen matter that we
inherit from modern physics. But it is instead a kind of
intelligence, a kind of mind."
—Terence McKenna, http://www.deoxy.org/mckenna.htm