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it is the most fundamental act of our species: to sustain the body until time leaves it behind.
Ocean Vuong • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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And then people will do what four billion years have shaped them to do: stop and see just what it is they’re seeing.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Laughlin’s credo was simple: “To purify the breeding stock of the race at all costs.” As journalist Edwin Black notes in his 2003 book, War Against the Weak, Laughlin’s plan of attack was threefold: “sterilization, mass incarceration and sweeping immigration restrictions.” In furtherance of these goals, Laughlin created the imposingly named, feroci
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In The Wizard and the Prophet, Lynn Margulis is indeed quoted as comparing humans to bacteria in a petri dish, warning that humanity could overrun the planet and exhaust its resources, leading to collapse. Charles C. Mann opens the book with a quote from Margulis, whom he admires as “one of the most important biologists in the last half century,” a
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