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 processes. Do you understand the way it works well enough to keep all its systems in operation? Can you make your kidneys function? Can you control the removal of waste? Are you conscious of the blood flow through your arteries, or the fact that you are losing a hundred thousand skin cells a minute?
Life learned early on to recognize itself. - Lynn Margulis
Life learned early on to recognize itself.
- 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
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 …
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
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 …
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 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…
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
Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.
Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly. - Lynn Margulis
Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.
We are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings. - Lynn Margulis
We are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.
All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology. - Lynn Margulis
All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.
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
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…
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