" No," Malcol said. "My point is that life on earth can take care of itself. In the thinking of a human being, a hundred years is a long time. A hundred years ago, we didn'y have cars and airplanes and computers and vaccines. . . . It was a whole different world. But to the earth, a hundred years ago is nothing. A million years is nothing. This planet lives and breathes on a much vaster scale. We can't imagine its slow and powerful rhythms and we haven't got the humility to try. We have been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we are gone tomorrow. the earth will not miss us. "

― Michael Crichton , Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)