Symbiotic Planet Quotes

“Life is a planetary level phenomonon and the Earth has been alive for at least 3000 million years. To me the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhethoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of us, not we of it. Our self inflated moral imperative to guide a wayward Earth or heal a sick planet is evidence of our immense capacity for self-delusion. Rather, we need to protect us from ourselves.”
― Lynn Margulis, Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution

“We people are just like our planetmates. We cannot put an end to nature; we can only pose a threat to ourselves. The notion that we can destroy all life, includng bacteria thriving in the water tanks of nuclear power plants or boiling hot vents, is ludicrous. I hear our nonhuman brethren snickering: "Got along without you before before I met you, gonna get along without you now", they sing about us in harmony. Most of them, the microbes, the whales, the insects, the seed plants, and the birds, are still singing. The tropical forest trees are humming to themselves, waiting for us to finish our arrogant logging so they can get back to their business of growth as usual. And they will continue their cacophonies and harmonies long after we are gone.”
― Lynn Margulis, Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution

“Lá, a ciência facilitava a busca de perguntas profundas nas quais a filosofia e a ciência se confundiam: o que somos nós? De que nós e o universo somos feitos? Como funcionamos? Não duvido que devo minha escolha de uma carreira científica ao talento dessa formação "idiossincrática".”
― Lynn Margulis, Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution

“Coloco minhas mãos no lodo de aromáticos tecidos microbianos e sinto o cheiro da troca de gases. Aqui, como no âmbito humano, mas sem ser por mandamento nem inevitavelmente, a morte faz parte da vida.”
― Lynn Margulis, Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution

“O propósito de Mendel, muito provavelmente, era mostrar a imutabilidade fundamental da hereditariedade e assim opor-se, como em uma versão respeitável e brilhante de um "cientista da criação" paradoxal moderno, à noção anti-Adão de Charles Darwin da mutabilidade de todas as espécies.”
― Lynn Margulis, O PLANETA SIMBIOTICO - Uma nova perspectiva da evolucao.