Myths, Metaphors, and Science Fiction Quotes

“Sentience without senses. Blind, deaf, nerveless, moveless. Some irritability, response to touch. Response to sun, to light, to water, and chemicals in the earth around the roots. Nothing comprehensible to an animal mind. Presence without mind. Awareness of being, without object or subject. Nirvana. (p. 517)”
― Sheila Finch, Myths, Metaphors, and Science Fiction: Ancient Roots of the Literature of the Future