Found this great quote today. I hope you like it as much as I do.

Alan Watts:

Look, here is a tree in the garden, and every summer it produces apples, and we call it an apple tree because the tree apples, that's what it does. Alright, now here is a solar system inside a galaxy and one of the peculiarities of this solar system is that, at least on the planet Earth, the thing peoples. In just the same way that an apple tree apples.

Now maybe, two million years ago, somebody came from another galaxy in a flying saucer and had a look at this solar system, and they looked it over and shrugged their shoulders and said, "just a bunch of rocks," and they went away. Later on, maybe two million years later, they came around and they looked at it again, and they said, "Excuse me, we thought it was a bunch of rocks, but it's peopling, and it's alive after all. It's done something intelligent."

Because, you see, we grow out of this world in exactly the same way that the apples grow on the apple tree. If evolution means anything it means that.

But you see, we curiously twist it, we say well first of all in the beginning there was nothing but gas and rock. And then intelligence happened to arise in it, like a sort fungus or slime on top of the whole thing. But we are thinking in a way, you see, that disconnects the intelligence from the rocks. Where there are rocks, watch out; watch out, because the rocks are going eventually to come alive. And they are gonna have people crawling over them. It's only a matter of time. Rocks are not dead.   They're really conscious.