“Everything here is alive thanks to the living of everything else.”

— Lewis Thomas

"The Youngest and Brightest Thing Around", p. 14
The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher (1979)

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American physician, poet and educator 1913–1993

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