Ecosystems express themselves through us, through our inner landscapes, and that is why we can have happiness. Our awareness of ecosystems does for us what prayer does for those who believe in God: it makes us a center, through which a greater power takes form.
Prayer is not an asking, but a flowing through, because once we become aware of the “something greater than ourselves,” our wishes tend to be in harmony with it. And thus, ecosystems become, at one and the same time, both our wish and the realization of our wish. That is, the qualia that ecosystems reveal to us is often the answer to a question we have not yet expressed.