I'm not unhappy with the idea of appealing to people's self-interest if that's what makes them understand something about the non-human world.

Symbiosis can fail in various different ways: if there's too much stomach bacteria in my stomach, I might have some problems. If there's too little, I might have some problems. There's a sort of dynamic system there.

Trivially speaking, ecological awareness means realising that beings are interconnected in some way, but then we have to figure out what this interconnection actually means.

Timothy Morton Quotes