Life learned early on to recognize itself.

- Lynn Margulis

The idea that we are "stewards of the earth" is another symptom of human arrogance. Imagine yourself with the task of overseeing your body's physical…

- Lynn Margulis

The notion of saving the planet has nothing to do with intellectual honesty or science. The fact is that the planet was here long before us and will …

- Lynn Margulis

Body concentrates order. It continuously self-repairs. Every five days you get a new stomach lining. You get a new liver every two months. Your skin …

- Lynn Margulis

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

- Lynn Margulis

Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.

- Lynn Margulis

We are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.

- Lynn Margulis

All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.

- Lynn Margulis

To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhetoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of us, not we o…

- Lynn Margulis