People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous. Lynn Margulis More Quotes by Lynn Margulis More Quotes From Lynn Margulis The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask. Lynn Margulis fewer species knows 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 eggs self animal 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 differences people years People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. Thats 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 people thinking Why does everybody agree that atmospheric oxygen comes from life, but no one speaks about the other gases coming from life? Lynn Margulis oxygen speak doe 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 sexuality details energy To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicagos second city of garages was my young lifes passion. Lynn Margulis passion cities fire 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 good you life world If you really want to study evolution, you've got go outside sometime, because you'll see symbiosis everywhere! Lynn Margulis go see you want My work more than didn't fit in. It crossed willy-nilly the boundaries that people had spent their lives building up. It hits some 30 subfields of biology, even geology. Lynn Margulis biology building work people 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 well-being respect talking life 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 doing think space travel