Our bodies, like those of all life, preserve the environment of an earlier Earth. We coexist with present-day microbes and harbor remnants of others, symbiotically subsumed within our cells. In this way, the microcosm lives on in us and we in it.


Microcosmos, Introduction (p. 20), Summit Books. 1986


Our bodies, like those of all life, preserve the environment of an earlier Earth. We coexist with present-day microbes and harbor remnants of others, ...

Our bodies, like those of all life, preserve the environment of an earlier Earth. We coexist with present-day microbes and harbor remnants of others, ...

Our bodies, like those of all life, preserve the environment of an earlier Earth. We coexist with present-day microbes and harbor remnants of others, ...

Our bodies, like those of all life, preserve the environment of an earlier Earth. We coexist with present-day microbes and harbor remnants of others, ...