evolution incarnate

"We have a mission to create, for we are evolution incarnate.

We are her self-awareness, her frontal lobes and fingertips.

We are second-generation star stuff come alive.

We are parts of something 3.5 billion years old, but pubertal in cosmic time.

We are neurons of this planet's interspecies mind."

Howard Bloom, Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century