. . . like a smile of a wind

Why, when this span of life might be fleeted away
as laurel, a little darker than all
the surrounding green,
with tiny waves on the border
of every leaf (like the smile of a wind): -- Oh, why
have to be human, and shunning Destiny, /
long for Destiny! …

Not because happiness really
exists, that precipitate profit of imminent loss. ……. ~ Rilke




But meanwhile more bacteria like things were turning up inside cells. Plants, for example, have a second set of blobs in their cells that they use to carry out photosynthesis, they capture incoming sun-light and use its energy to combine water and carbon dioxide into organic manner. And like mitochondria, chloroplasts bear a striking resemblance to bacteria. Some scientists became convinced that chloroplasts were, like mitochondria, a form of symbolic bacteria -- specially, that they descended from cyanobacteria, he light-harnessing microbes that live in oceans and freshwater. ~112 ~ Excerpt from” “Evolution - A Triumph of An Idea” ~ Author ~ Carl Zimmer