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| quote: | Originally posted by Kenny Rogers
we are all just water and carbon. |
And phosphorus and nitrogen and calcium and manganese and selenium and iron...
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Fifty million years lay under my feet, fifty million years of bellowing monsters moving in a green world now gone so utterly that its very light was traveling on the farther edge of space. The chemicals of all that vanished age lay about me in the ground. The iron did not remember the blood it had once moved within, the phosphorus had forgot the savage brain. I had lifted up a fistful of the ground and held it while that wild flight of southbound warblers hurled over me into the oncoming dark. There went phosphorus, there went iron, there went carbon, there beat the calcium in those hurrying wings. Alone on a dead planet I watch that incredible miracle speeding past. It ran by some true compass over field and wasteland. It cried its individual ecstasies into the air until the gullies rang. It swerved like a single body. It knew itself, and lonely, it bunched close in the racing darkness, its individual entities feeling about them in the rising night. And so, crying out to each other their identity, they passed away out of my view. - Loren Eiseley, The Unexpected Universe |
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