Fungi garnered the recycling trade. Partnerships, parasites, nothing standing still. Oils, terpenes, carbohydrates, even protein, the main course of the teachings. Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. The Original Prohibition, our first drug law.
Plants represent immediacy, a seamless suchness.
No philosophizing, no rationalizing. Just the Fact. The Buddha once preached a whole sermon by holding aloft a flower. Kasyapa understood and smiled. Within me clear, not only to discern Things in thir Causes, but to trace the ways Of highest Agents, deem'd however wise.