Lynn Margulis Citas

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

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  Verbs, Earth

  Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan (1995). “What is Life?”, p.14, Univ of California Press

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• We are all of us walking communities of bacteria.
  The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape
  made of tiny living beings.

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  Community, World, Landscape

  Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan (1986). “Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Evolution from Our Microbial Ancestors”, p.191, Univ of California Press

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• 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.

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  Moving, Responsibility, Self

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• The notion of saving the planet has nothing to do with intellectual honesty or science. The fact is that the planet was here long before us and will be here long after us. The planet is running fine. What people are talking about is saving themselves and saving their middle-class lifestyles and saving their cash flow.

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  Running, Honesty, Cash Flow

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• The idea that we are "stewards of the earth" is another symptom of human arrogance. Imagine yourself with the task of overseeing your body's physical processes. Do you understand the way it works well enough to keep all its systems in operation? Can you make your kidneys function? Can you control the removal of waste? Are you conscious of the blood flow through your arteries, or the fact that you are losing a hundred thousand skin cells a minute?

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  Cells, Blood, Ideas

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

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  Consciousness, Compare, Ecology

  "Attack of the Microbiologists" by Elizabeth Royte, www.nytimes.com. 1996.

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• El cuerpo concentra el orden. Se autorrepara continuamente. Cada cinco días tienes un nuevo revestimiento del estómago. Cada dos meses tienes un hígado nuevo. Tu piel se reemplaza a sí misma cada seis semanas. Cada año se sustituye el 98% de los átomos de tu cuerpo. Esta sustitución química ininterrumpida, el metabolismo, es un signo seguro de vida.

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  Self, Order, Years

  Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan (1995). “What is Life?”, p.17, Univ of California Press

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• Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

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  Tree, Earth, Evolution

  Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan (1995). “What is Life?”, p.93, Univ of California Press

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

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  Natural, Natural Selection, Selection

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• Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.

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  Butterfly, Looks, Caterpillars

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• 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.

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  Powerful, Unique, Understanding

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• 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.

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  Animal, Environmental, Plant

  Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan (1995). “What is Life?”, p.27, Univ of California Press

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• 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.

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  Mutation, Taught, Accumulation

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• 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?

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  Discipline, Humanity, Arrogance

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• Life learned early on to recognize itself.

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  "Life’s Most Amazing Invisible Secrets" by Andy Mannle, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2012.

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• Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the neo-Darwinian straitjacket. Such questions include, for example, 'How do new structures arise in evolution?' 'Why, given so much environmental change, is stasis so prevalent in evolution as seen in the fossil record?' 'How did one group of organisms or set of macromolecules evolve from another?' The importance of these questions is not at issue; it is just that neo-Darwinians, restricted by their resuppositions, cannot answer them.

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  Issues, Environmental, Groups

  Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan (2013). “Slanted Truths: Essays on Gaia, Symbiosis and Evolution”, p.100, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Somos inconscientes de la mayoría de los procesos de nuestro cuerpo, menos mal, porque la cagaríamos si no lo fuéramos. El cuerpo humano es tan complejo, con tantas partes... un sistema mucho más complejo de lo que podemos imaginar. La idea de que cuidamos conscientemente de un sistema tan grande y misterioso es ridícula.

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  Ideas, Environmental, Body

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• Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one mutation make a wing, a fruit, a woody stem, or a claw appear. Mutations, in summary, tend to induce sickness, death, or deficiencies. No evidence in the vast literature of heredity changes shows unambiguous evidence that random mutation itself, even with geographical isolation of populations, leads to speciation.

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  Loss, Wings, Population

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• 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.

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  Thinking, People, Earth

  "Attack of the Microbiologists" by Elizabeth Royte, www.nytimes.com. January 14, 1996.

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• Se decía que la acumulación de mutaciones genéticas era suficiente para cambiar una especie por otra....No. No era deshonestidad. Creo que fue cumplimiento de deseos e impulso social. Las suposiciones, hechas pero no verificadas, se enseñaban como hechos.

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  Thinking, Wish, Mutation

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• 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?

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  Groups, Extinction, Ancestry

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

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  Species, Fewer, Knows

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• People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous.

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  People, Ridiculous

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• Todos nosotros, desde el óvulo fértil hasta el embrión y el cadáver, somos exactamente eso: animales calientes, húmedos y peludos obligados por la sexualidad de nuestros antepasados y antepasadas a ser, directa o indirectamente, nuestro propio yo excitante y excitable, provocador y provocable.

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  Animal, Self, Eggs

  "A Woman's Worth: 1857 Letter Echoes Still; Some Basic Disputes Over Feminism Persist" by Patricia Cohen, www.nytimes.com. July 18, 1998.

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• 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.

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  Años, Diferencias, Personas

  "A Woman's Worth: 1857 Letter Echoes Still; Some Basic Disputes Over Feminism Persist" by Patricia Cohen, www.nytimes.com. July 18, 1998.

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