Lewis Thomas Quotes on Connection
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Left to ourselves, mechanistic and autonomic, we hanker for friends.
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Maybe there is a single spot, just one, where living organisms are holed up. Maybe so, but if so this would be the strangest thing of all, absolutely incomprehensible. For we are not familiar with this kind of living. We do not have solitary, isolated creatures. It is beyond our imagination to conceive of a single form of life that exists alone and independent, unattached to other forms.
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Everything here is alive thanks to the living of everything else.