Lynn Margulis
Scientist
1938-03-05
Quotes by Lynn Margulis
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Life did not take over the world by combat,but by networking.
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Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.
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Life did not take over the world by combat,but by networking.
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Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.
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There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a species for ever, certainly not by biting off the hand that feeds us, which is exactly what we are doing.
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Of course, the plea for respect for nonhuman life goes far beyond the scientific delight of familiarity with our planet mates. The nonhuman forms of life with which we 6,000 million talking, upright apes share this finite planet are directly or indirectly connected to our well-being.
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Although the detail of our sexual energies and their objects and objectives vastly vary, the existence of our sexuality itself is an undeniable truth.
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Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.
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Life on earth is such a good story you cannot afford to miss the beginning... Beneath our superficial differences we are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.
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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.
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