This is the first page of Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose.
EVOCATION
Earth, 114 million years ago, one morning just after sunrise: The first flower ever to appear on the planet opens up to receive the rays of the sun. Prior to this momentous event that heralds an evolutionary transformation in the life of plans, the planet had alresdy been covered in vegetation for missions of years. The first flower probably did not survive for long, and flowers must have remained rare and isolated phenomena, since conditions were most likely not yet favorable for a widespread flowering to occur. One day, however, a critical threshold was reached, and suddenly there would have been an explosion of color and scent all over the planet — if perceiving consciousness had been there to witness it.
