Sarah Stewart Johnson

“Nature, God, whatever you want to call the creator of the universe,” the elder Vishniac had once opined, “comes through the microscope clearly and strongly. Everything made by human hands looks terrible under magnification—crude, rough, and unsymmetrical. But in nature, every bit of life is lovely. And the more magnification we use, the more details are brought out, perfectly formed, like endless sets of boxes within boxes.”
― Sarah Stewart Johnson, The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World

“It felt wrong to kill it, but how many lives had I taken inadvertently, without even thinking. There had been countless little genocides that morning alone, just as I walked through the meadow to class. What universes were down there? What noises were too small to hear below those blades of grass.”
― Sarah Stewart Johnson, The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World