Are we not natural creatures? Are we not evolved, too? Surely all the lessons we've learned in the past century come to a single point: we have to stop thinking of ourselves as somehow apart from nature, and recognise that we're inseparable from it. (John Brunner)

Are we not natural creatures? Are we not evolved, too? Surely all the lessons we've learned in the past century come to a single point: we have to stop thinking of ourselves as somehow apart from nature, and recognise that we're inseparable from it.

John Brunner

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