““Acid,” says the guy with the eyes, “raises your powers of integration so that everything is important.”
“Acid,” says Chiron, “lowers your powers of discrimination so that everything seems important.””

Source: Summer of Love (1994), Chapter 6 “Purple Haze” (p. 133)

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“If creation is important to something or someone or is going to become important, then all subcreations of it are also important. Everything is important. There is nothing so unimportant you can ignore it or destroy it with complete impunity. Your senses are part of the "everything."”

Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer

Seeing is important. Smelling is important. Hearing is important. Everything is important and you have to look at, study, get involved with everything, and you have to believe what you find out, and test, and finally prove! None of this nonsense about not believing in fossils because God was just playing around in order to confuse us. If you ignore the evidence of your (dare one say God-given) senses, if you define myth as reality, and if you claim divine revelation allows you to destroy any part of creation, you have committed absolute evil.
Do we have any way of knowing exactly what is intended for the universe to be or become? No, but given the age and complexity of the whole shebang, we can be fairly sure creation is important.
Strange Horizons interview (2008)