" The parts are relied upon to use their own analyses and choices as to how to respond, in essence, giving Gaia a network of trillions upon trillions of neural networks all working in their own sphere to help maintain Gaian homeodynamis. and all utilizing their own inherent genius to do so "

― Stephen Harrod Buhner , Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Beyond the Doors of Perception into the Dreaming of Earth