"We have dominated and overruled nature, and from……" — Lewis Thomas
"We have dominated and overruled nature, and from now on the earth is ours, a kitchen garden until we learn to make our own chlorophyll and float it out in the sun inside plastic mebranes. We will build Scarsdale on Mount Everest."
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130 Quotes by Lewis Thomas
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