"Life" refers to a type of organic integration
which is always to some extent adjusted
to a set of particular conditions in space and time;
it operates at a certain place and under seasonal conditions.
Life can "adapt" itself to some degree of change,
but actually the possible variations
of temperature, climate and environment
to which any living organism can satisfactorily adapt itself
are very small considering the immense
range of possibilities of the universe.
Life operates on the principle of exclusion;
it accepts only for integration
that which is like its original substance,
that which vibrates in constant harmony with its own rhythm.
-Fire Out of the Stone
