Lynn Margulis Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhetoric 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 our sick planet, is evidence of our immense capacity for self delusion. Rather, we need to protect ourselves from ourselves.”

“Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.”

“The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.”

“All scientists agree that evolution has occurred - that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new biological groups, have arisen. The question is, is natural selection enough to explain evolution? Is it the driver of evolution?”

“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.”

“All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.”

“Life learned early on to recognize itself.”

“Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.”

“People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous.”

“All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.”