III.4 "as an Animal is a Plant"

There is no difference between marks and words in the sense that there is between observation and accepted authority, or between verifiable fact and tradition. The process is everywhere the same: that of the sign and its likeness, and this is why nature and the word can intertwine with one another to infinity, forming, for those who can read it, one vast single text. (Foucault 34Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaoelogy of the Human Sciences (New York: Vintage, 1994): 34.)