Sublime

That’s the trouble with people, their root problem. Life runs alongside them, unseen. Right here, right next. Creating the soil. Cycling water. Trading in nutrients. Making weather. Building atmosphere. Feeding and curing and sheltering more kinds of creatures than people know how to count.

Isso que chamam de natureza deveria ser a interação do nosso corpo com o entorno, em que a gente soubesse de onde vem o que comemos, para onde vai o ar que expiramos.

but for the Oankali, genetic manipulation is not distinct from nature. In fact, all of their technology, including their starfaring ship, is alive, engineered and grown from natural forms.

Life is the mode of existence of protein bodies, the essential element of which consists in continual metabolic interchange with the natural environment outside them,