John Burroughs Quote

The cell is an intelligent being; through the chemicophysical forces it builds up a man and fits him with a brain and all his wonderful organs and powers. It builds the flower, the seed, the leaf, the stalk, the root, and through the mystery of inheritance keeps up the succession of its kind.

Under The Apple Tree, The Primal Mind (p. 139), Houghton Mifflin Co. 1916