Beyond The Observatory

p. 101: We are indeed of the earth –brothers of the boulders--, cousins of the clouds, and distant kin, by way of the chemical tie-up, of the fossil plants and animals that in times past took a try, as we are now doing, at biological life and persistence.
En français : Nous sommes effectivement nés de la Terre [ce qui fait de nous] les frères des rochers, les cousins des nuages et des cousins éloignés, par des liens chimiques, des plantes et des animaux fossiles qui en des temps éloignés ont tenté, tout comme nous le faisons aujourd'hui, l'aventure de la vie biologique et de la survie.

p. 32: […] Homo sapiens has been able to tie together the knowledge he has picked up here and there and come forth with the assurance that everything in the microcosmos and macrocosmos changes with time. Certainly it is appropriate to speak of cosmic evolution.