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" Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly. "
Lynn Margulis
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" Although the detail of our sexual energies and their objects and objectives vastly vary, the existence of our sexuality itself is an undeniable truth. "
Lynn Margulis
Our
Truth
Sexuality
" I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence. "
Lynn Margulis
New
Evidence
Random
" 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? "
Lynn Margulis
Question
Life
Evolution
" People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. That's ridiculous. If you rid the earth of flowering plants, people would die, period. But the earth was without flowering plants for almost all of its history. "
Lynn Margulis
Earth
Think
Plants
" There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a species for ever, certainly not by biting off the hand that feeds us, which is exactly what we are doing. "
Lynn Margulis
Us
Travel
Think
" People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous. "
Lynn Margulis
Say
Against
I Am
" All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled by the sexuality of our forefathers and foremothers to be, either directly or indirectly, our own exciting and excitable, provocative and provocable selves. "
Lynn Margulis
Warm
Own
Animals
" Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit? "
Lynn Margulis
Intelligence
Discipline
Arrogance
" Life learned early on to recognize itself. "
Lynn Margulis
Recognize
Life
Learned
" All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology. "
Lynn Margulis
Human
Ask
Consciousness
" To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicago's second city of garages was my young life's passion. "
Lynn Margulis
City
Passion
Life
" Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create. "
Lynn Margulis
Selection
Natural
Maybe
" Life on earth is such a good story you cannot afford to miss the beginning... Beneath our superficial differences we are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings. "
Lynn Margulis
Life
World
Beginning
" Body concentrates order. It continuously self-repairs. Every five days you get a new stomach lining. You get a new liver every two months. Your skin replaces itself every six weeks. Every year, 98 percent of the atoms of your body are replaced. This non-stop chemical replacement, metabolism, is a sure sign of life. "
Lynn Margulis
New
You
Your Body
" Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-specific arrogance. No evidence exists that we are 'chosen', the unique species for which all the others were made. Nor are we the most important one because we are so numerous, powerful and dangerous. "
Lynn Margulis
Unique
Arrogance
Better
" Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself. "
Lynn Margulis
Itself
Verb
Life
" 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. "
Lynn Margulis
Respect
Life
Far
" 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. "
Lynn Margulis
Animals
Food
Plants
" The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask. "
Lynn Margulis
Even
Species
Questions
" If you really want to study evolution, you've got go outside sometime, because you'll see symbiosis everywhere! "
Lynn Margulis
Evolution
Go
See
" The urgency to mate persists in all people as in all other mammals because of the evolutionary drive to continue the species, the inborn imperative for genes to reproduce and hormonal differences that evolved over millions of years. "
Lynn Margulis
Urgency
Differences
People