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“If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted like trees.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

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

.................................................. Now the immense loneliness begins. The days go numb, the wind sucks the world from your senses like withered leaves. Through the empty branches the sky remains. It is what you have. Be earth now, and evensong. Be the ground lying under that sky. Be modest now, like a thing ripened until it is real, so that he who began it all can feel you when he reaches for you. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Slowly the evening changes into the clothes held for it by a row of ancient trees; you look: and two worlds grow separate from you, one ascending to heaven, another, that falls; and leave you, belonging not wholly to either one, not quite as dark as the house that remains silent, not quite as certainly sworn to eternity as that which becomes star each night and rises— and leave you (unsayably to disentangle) your life with all its immensity and fear and great ripening, so that, all but bounded, all but understood, it is by turns stone in you and star. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke