Developmental Biology From a Cell to an Organism (Genetics Evolution)
I say that it touches a man that his blood is sea water
and his tears are salt, that the seed of his loins is scarcely
different from the same cells in a seaweed, and that of
stuff like his bones coral is made. I say that the physical
and biologic law lies down with him, and wakes
when a child stirs in the womb, and that the sap in a
tree, uprushing in the spring, and the smell of the loam,
where the bacteria bestir themselves in darkness, and
the path of the sun in the heaven, these are facts of fi rst
importance to his mental conclusions, and that a man
who goes in no consciousness of them is a drifter and a
dreamer, without a home or any contact with reality.