“Species are only commas in a sentence”
I never knew that marine biology was a major literary influence for John Steinbeck, until I stumbled upon this beautiful passage: “Our own interest lay in relationships of animal to animal. If one observes in this relational sense, it seems apparent that species are only commas in a sentence, that each species is at once the point and the base of a pyramid, that all life is relational to the point where an Einsteinian relativity seems to emerge. And then not only the meaning
