Words are too recent an imprinting. Animals, though, are part of our ancient grammar, prehistorically embedded in the brain. - Steven Kotler

In Lovelock's view the earth was a 'super-organism,' a cybernetic feedback system that 'seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet.' At the suggestion of his neighbor, author and screenwriter William Goldman, he called the system Gaia after the ancient Greek Earth goddess.

Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the frenzy with which you should be inoculated? Behold, I teach you the overman: He is this lightning; he is this frenzy. – FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

"So I'm heading for Truth or Consequences."

"Aren't we all," says Lorenzo, "aren't we all."