Tropical rainforests are primitive and ancient ecological systems.
Their origins stretch backwards through the emergence of the flowering plants in Jurassic times over 135 million years ago, to the plants preserved in the coal-measures of the Carboniferous era millions of years before that, and which appear to us today in the form of plastics. Dwyer's ability to see rainforests of hundreds of millions of years ago embedded in the plastics of the present age is a good example of the psychological effects of rainforests upon people who spend their time in them. I believe that contact with rainforests energises and enlivens a realisation of our actual, our biological self. We are composed of the ashes of ancient stars weaving themselves into ever more brilliant complexity, weaving themselves into rainforests, weaving themselves into us. Yes, our psyche is itself a product of the rainforests.