“All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled by the sexuality of our forefathers and foremothers to be, either directly or indirectly, our own exciting and excitable, provocative and provocable selves.” SelfAnimalExcitingWarmSexualityEggsWetCompelledCorpsesProvocativeFertileForefathersEmbryosFurry Author: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 replaces itself every six weeks. Every year, 98 percent of the atoms of your body are replaced. This non-stop chemical replacement, metabolism, is a sure sign of life.” YearsTwoSelfBodyOrderFiveWeekMonthsSixPercentSkinsYour BodyStomachChemicalsAtomsReplacedLiverTwo MonthsReplacementsMetabolismNon StopSigns Of Life Book:What is Life? Source: What is Life?
“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 of it. Our self-inflated moral imperative to guide a wayward Earth, or heal our sick planet, is evidence of our immense capacity for self delusion. Rather, we need to protect ourselves from ourselves.” NeedsHumansSelfCareEarthMovingResponsibilityMoralPlanetsProtectEvidenceCapacitySickTake CareGuidesHealDelusionImmenseRhetoricPowerlessTaking ResponsibilityImperativesSelf DelusionLaughable Author:Lynn Margulis
