“Let a baby crawl. Crawling develops the pelvis and lower back.”

“The relationship between those who are constantly watched and tracked and those who watch and track them is the relationship between masters and slaves.”

“My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation’s history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.”

“As much as we like to talk about humans as ominvores, just one more species selecting from nature’s mind-boggling array of options, in truth, we’re cooks.”

The first synthetic was US — living soil powered by the intermediates of photosynthesis, a photo-synthetic result of light’s action on its own creation.