Noted scientist Leslie Orgel’s famous ‘second rule’ that “evolution is cleverer than you are” is thus spot on. And the burgeoning biomimicry movement are not exaggerating when they say that we can learn from “Nature’s genius”. The thing is, until we start to acknowledge natural intelligence, until we stop bigging ourselves up above the rest of life’s great web, we will not find our right place within Nature. For sure, we are an expression of Nature (and an impressive one at that) — yet we are somehow blind to the true significance of life on Earth. To see and feel the biosphere for what it really is — namely a fabulous system of self-organizing intelligence — is to become a newly conscious expression of that intelligence. And that is the stuff the profoundest dreams are made of.