Once you try to force or boss a being (either human or nonhuman), the spirit is gone from that relation. You can’t use magic or make magic; you can only swim with its currents, occasionally choosing which stream will take you. Such are the informatics of complex systems like land and sea and sky. People get excited about mycelia, but those are just the wires. Spirit is the signal.

 It is not a resource you can extract and process with chemicals and labor, to add value to some bastard’s capital. Like time itself, you just flow with it until it’s finished with you.

Tyson Yunkaporta