Inés Draaijer

“The idea that humans are yet intelligent enough to serve as stewards of the Earth is among the most hubristic ever.”
― James Lovelock, The Revenge of Gaia

“I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E. O. Wilson reminded us, tribal carnivores. We are programmed by our inheritance to see other living things as mainly something to eat, and we care more about our national tribe than anything else. We will even give our lives for it and are quite ready to kill other humans in the cruellest of ways for the good of our tribe. We still find alien the concept that we and the rest of life, from bacteria to whales, are parts of the much larger and diverse entity, the living Earth.”
― James Lovelock, The Revenge of Gaia

“It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.”
― Carl Sagan

“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos