Early in Orcadia Quotes

“I am almost sure that we, today, underestimate the intelligence, ingenuity and perhaps goodness of our remote ancestors, who did not have to think, as we must, in terms of total world destruction, but who could concentrate on living.”
― Naomi Mitchison, Early in Orcadia

“Go far enough back and all of humankind are cousins. I would like to think, for instance, that somewhere in my genes are the cave painters of Lascaux or the painters of the equally ancient Chinese or African caves and cliffs. To make it universal we must go back beyond the last ice age or we will cut off our cousinship with America and Australia. I can only hope that no human or protohuman genes have been totally lost.”
― Naomi Mitchison, Early in Orcadia