Damon Gameau: Old Story

It was telling the people that every breath they took was dependent on trees and phytoplankton, and that trillions of bacteria and fungi live on them and in them and kept them alive. Viewing the natural world as separate to humans was now empirically false. Humans are nature. But the science was also telling them that plants could see, they could smell, hear, they could learn and store memories. That dolphins gossiped and spoke in local dialects, elephants held ceremonies for dead relatives, grasshoppers could turn into locusts and back again in a matter of hours, and that termites had built an underground metropolis the size of the United Kingdom.