Sublime

Frogs, bats, humans, and lizards are all just variations on a theme.

all of our extraordinary capabilities arose from basic components that evolved in ancient fish and other creatures. From common parts came a very unique construction. We are not separate from the rest of the living world; we are part of it down to our bones and, as we will see shortly, even our genes.

We are not separate from the rest of the living world; we are part of it down to our bones and, as we will see shortly, even our genes.

In the three-dimensional world of the deep ocean, above and below matter as much as in front and behind.

Every rock sitting on the ground has a story to tell: the story of what the world looked like as that particular rock formed.

Years ago, it had occurred to me that Darwin and Nietzsche agreed on one thing: the defining characteristic of the organism is striving. Describing life otherwise was like painting a tiger