We are told that the trouble with

“We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature… In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds.”

— Lewis Thomas

Author: Lewis Thomas
Category: nature
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Our behavior toward each other is the

“Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.”

— Lewis Thomas

Author: Lewis Thomas
Category: nature
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