Q: What is the debt for which you cannot be sued?
A: The debt of nature. (p. 28)
* A misleading conundrum, and hopefully one that was never taken seriously. Human courts of law obviously have no jurisdiction over the wild places, but that doesn’t mean that nature has no recourse if a debt is not paid in full. Specifically, a network of tough-talking carnivorous plants who serve as its strongmen.
Fig. 78 – The Ya-Te-Yeo plant collects on an overdue loan
This is the so-called “law of the jungle”: if you cross Mother Nature, she will have you beaten and possibly killed by a plant.
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