'But say there is no Creator, that Life created itself in great bursts of variation and selection, and filled the sky with midges and birds and filled the seas with—not just fishes—but the most extraordinary collection of creatures too inventive to be imagined, the creeping, chirping things with thin legs or sucking parts. If this is so, then this world is astonishing, irreplaceable, essential, beautiful and fearsome, generative, and beyond human understanding. If the good English word for this combination of characteristics is “sacred,” then that is the word I will use. We are born into a sacred world, and we ourselves are part of its glory....
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