“Nature conserves, prefers novelty.” — Terence McKenna Quote

“Nature conserves, prefers novelty.”

“We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.”

“I live up at about the 2000 feet level on a five acre piece of forest that I built a small house on.”

“That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with.”

“Every time I hear a revenge story, I run the opposite direction. I just don't think such stories have any novelty value.”

“Novelty always sparks ideas.”

“If I want to do song and dance, I will and I would like to but I don't want to do it in every film. Where is the novelty then? It just takes the fun out of work for me.”

“Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist.”

“A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.”

“Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.”