Richard J. Severson

To imagine what it would be like to be something other than a human being is the epitome of being human. (An insatiable desire to fly like a bird, to see far and wide, was a hallmark of the Stone Age. Experimental flights of imagination–the long road to the full variety of human consciousness–might never have been undertaken without birds to imitate.) This is the root of every cultural innovation; the beginning of all understanding. Even angels and gods bow down to the reckonings of a shared dream.