So who are we?
Brothers of masculine chimps.
Sisters of feminine bonobos.
We are all of them, and more.
We're molded by the same life force.
The blood veins in our hands echoed a course of water traces on the Earth.
And our brains - our celebrated brains - reflect drainage of a tidal marsh.
Life is a force in its own right.
It is a new element.
And it has altered the Earth.
It covers Earth like a skin.
And where it doesn't, as in Greenland in winter, Mars is still not very far.
But that likelihood fades as long as ice melts again.
And where water is liquid, it becomes a womb.
For cells green with chlorophyll
– and that molecular marvel is what's made a difference –
it powers everything.
The whole animal world today lives on a stockpile of bacterial oxygen that is cycled constantly through plants and algae,
and their waste is our breath, and vice versa.
This Earth is alive, and it's made its own membrane.
We call it atmosphere.
This is the icon of our journey.
And you all here today can imagine and will shape where we go next.
(…)
The more we learn about our Universe,
the more we realize how precious our planet is
This planet is breathtaking,
But now we also now, it is breath making,
no matter if you call it Gaia or whole Earth or blue marble,
no matter if you believe in the omnipotence of a god or in the sheer force of Life to express it self,
this is the one thing that we all have in common and the one thing we can not life with out.”
Frans Lanting
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