“What is all this?
This by product of reality we call life: not probable, not even necessary,
and yet it is all we know, because it is all we are, and it is with the whole of
what we are that we reckon with reality, that we long to fathom it
— from the scale of gluons to the scale of galaxies,
from the mystery of the cell to the mystery of the soul.”
LOREN EISELEYLE
“I can lose my hands and still live
I can lose my legs and still live
I can lose my eyes and still live
I can lose my hair, eyebrows,
nose, arms and many other things
... and still live
But if I lose the air I die
If I lose the sun I die
If I lose the plants and animals I die
All of these things are more a part
of me, more essential to my every
breath, than is my so called body
What is my real body??”
JACK D. FORBES