“I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the
youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as evolutionary
time is measured, a juvenile species, a child of a species. We are only
tentatively set in place, error prone, at risk of fumbling, in real
danger at the moment of leaving behind only a thin layer of of our
fossils, radioactive at that.”
Lewis Thomas, Fragile Species
Lewis Thomas, Fragile Species
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