"You have at least a million relatives as close as tenth cousin, and no one on Earth is any further removed than your fiftieth cousin.
With each breath, you take into your body 10 sextillion atoms, and, owing to the wind's circulation, every year you have intimate relations with oxygen molecules exhaled by every person alive, as well as by everyone who ever lived.
With each breath, you take into your body 10 sextillion atoms, and, owing to the wind's circulation, every year you have intimate relations with oxygen molecules exhaled by every person alive, as well as by everyone who ever lived.
Right now you may be carrying atoms that were once inside the lungs of Malcolm X, William Shakespeare, Joan of Arc, and Cleopatra." ~ Guy Murchie
(painting by Flora Bowley)
(painting by Flora Bowley)
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