" It wasn’t supposed to be this way; when antibiotics were commercially introduced in 1946 they were considered to be miracle drugs and many prominent researchers and physicians loudly proclaimed the end of infectious disease—for all time—was at hand. The trouble is that the lens through which most scientists viewed the world then (as regrettably, many still do) pictured the world as an essentially static background against which human beings acted. "

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