" ...Fling your arms wide in an expansive gesture to span all of evolution from its origin at your left fingertip to today at your right fingertip. All the way across your midline to well past your right shoulder, life consists of nothing but bacteria. Many-celled, invertebrate life flowers somewhere around your right elbow. The dinosaurs originate at the middle of your right palm and go extinct around your last finger joint. The whole story of Homo erectus and our ancestors the Homo sapiens is contained in the thickness of one nail clipping. As for recorded history; as for the Sumerians, the Babylonians, the Jewish patriarchs, the dynasties of Pharaohs, the legions of Rome, the Christian Fathers, the Laws of Medes and Persians which never change; as for Troy and Greeks, Helen and Achilles and Agamemnon dead; as for Napolean and Hitler, the Beatles and Bill Clinton, they and everyone that new them are blown away in the dust from one light stroke of a nail file."
- From Richard Dawkins' "Unweaving the Rainbow"
Unmoved by those who suffer,
Unaffected by the chirping sparrow,
Inconsiderate of those below,
Oblivious to the plaintive roar
pleading its way through extinction.
We lead a life of characteristic immoderation,
with an anesthetic imperviousness,
an inability to notice and wonder.
-Anonymous
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