--- title: "1 Rain Forest Quotes By Ralph Metzner" description: "1 Rain Forest quotes by Ralph Metzner. Plus more from Ralph Metzner and more Rain Forest sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dba/ralph-metzner-33808_activism_the-lacandones-have-a-prophecy-that-the_2823567.jpg" --- > [“The Lacandones have a prophecy that the world will be destroyed when the last mahogany tree is gone. The mahogany is the 'indicator species' for the rain forest; its health or death is indicative of the health or death of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-metzner/the-lacandones-have-a-prophecy-that-the-world-will-be-destroyed-when/) [Ralph Metzner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-metzner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dba/ralph-metzner-33808_activism_the-lacandones-have-a-prophecy-that-the_2823567.jpg) ## More by Ralph Metzner > [“…Some timeless time later, dreamlike images began to emerge, the solar system, the Earth…the last to emerge was the sense of my everyday identity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-metzner/some-timeless-time-later-dreamlike-images-began-to-emerge-the-solar/) [Ralph Metzner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-metzner/) > [ The first note in that octave \[of our cultural transformation\], the do, was the discovery of LSD by Albert Hofmann in 1943. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-metzner/the-first-note-in-that-octave-of-our-cultural-transformation-the-do/) [Ralph Metzner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-metzner/) > [“My only reality was a mass of radiant swirling energy of immense proportions that seemed to contain all existence in a condensed and entirely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-metzner/my-only-reality-was-a-mass-of-radiant-swirling-energy-of-immense/) [Ralph Metzner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-metzner/) > [The introduction of LSD and psychedelics into the culture produced a transformation of the entire culture, the consciousness of the culture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-metzner/the-introduction-of-lsd-and-psychedelics-into-the-culture-produced-a/) [Ralph Metzner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-metzner/) > [“I lost all contact with the surrounding world, which completely disappeared…The awareness of my everyday existence, my name, my whereabouts and my life disappeared……](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-metzner/i-lost-all-contact-with-the-surrounding-world-which-completely/) [Ralph Metzner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-metzner/) > [“The reckless application of technology, harnessed to greed, degrades and destroys the ecosystems in which the energies of the elements are maintained in exquisite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-metzner/the-reckless-application-of-technology-harnessed-to-greed-degrades/) [Ralph Metzner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-metzner/) > [“When the anthropologist asked the Kwakiutl for a map of their coast, they told him stories: "Here? Salmon gather. Here? Sea otter camps. Here…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-metzner/when-the-anthropologist-asked-the-kwakiutl-for-a-map-of-their-coast/) [Ralph Metzner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-metzner/) > [Just as Hitler used the Reichstag burning, the U.S. government now uses the so-called two wars, the War on Drugs and the War on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-metzner/just-as-hitler-used-the-reichstag-burning-the-u-s-government-now-uses/) [Ralph Metzner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-metzner/) > [The LSD experience usually changes forever the worldview and basic life-orientation of all who experience it](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-metzner/the-lsd-experience-usually-changes-forever-the-worldview-and-basic/) [Ralph Metzner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-metzner/) > [“I get caught in a hell-world of some sort. In the initial phase, I’m aware of and merging with a kind of network of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-metzner/i-get-caught-in-a-hell-world-of-some-sort-in-the-initial-phase-i-m/) [Ralph Metzner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-metzner/) > [I believe it’s true to say that everyone who has experienced LSD or another psychedelic would look on that experience, especially the first one,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-metzner/i-believe-it-s-true-to-say-that-everyone-who-has-experienced-lsd-or/) [Ralph Metzner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-metzner/) > [“(Female) I let go more fully than I ever have. I became the sounds and the movements – no controlling. That is the place…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-metzner/female-i-let-go-more-fully-than-i-ever-have-i-became-the-sounds-and/) [Ralph Metzner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-metzner/) > [“The Lacandones have a prophecy that the world will be destroyed when the last mahogany tree is gone. The mahogany is the 'indicator species'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-metzner/the-lacandones-have-a-prophecy-that-the-world-will-be-destroyed-when/) [Ralph Metzner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-metzner/) > [“All the elements were there: the frozen feeling bubbling up and permeating my body like quantum foam fizzing up to engulf the fragmenting mind,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-metzner/all-the-elements-were-there-the-frozen-feeling-bubbling-up-and/) [Ralph Metzner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-metzner/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/rain-forest/ralph-metzner/#itemlist", "name": "1 Rain Forest Quotes By Ralph Metzner", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The Lacandones have a prophecy that the world will be destroyed when the last mahogany tree is gone. 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