Melissa E.

“My point is that life on earth can take care of itself. In the thinking of a human being, a hundred years in a long time. A hundred years ago, we didn't have cars and airplanes and computers and vaccines...It was a whole different world. But to the earth, a hundred years is *nothing*. A million years is *nothing*. This planet lives and breathes on a much vaster scale. We can't imagine its slow and powerful rhythms, and we haven't got the humility to try. We have been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we are gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us."

- Ian Malcolm”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“What you say, when you say a word. What you think when you say it. What I see and hear when you speak. Words are ancient; visions and echoes cling to them like barnacles on the whale’s back. You speak words used in poetry and song since the beginning of the world we know. Here, you will learn to hear and to speak as if you had never listened, never spoken before. Then you will learn the thousand meanings within the word. What you say when you say fire.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, Song for the Basilisk

“Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.” Malcolm shook his head.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“So let me teach you something, Chief: in aggregate, humans are slow. You can pack a colony with the brightest, sharpest, most perceptive minds ever born into our species, and without any outside influences they’ll become selfish, self-serving, and slow to change. Intelligence does not help. In some situations, it makes things worse.”
― Elizabeth Bonesteel, Breach of Containment