Quotation

britprincess1ajax
"It had taken our ancestors four million years to figure out fire. It took them five million million to develop writing. And then, in a great acceleration -- just a brief, screaming handful of seasons -- we got electricity, nukes, commercial air travel, trips to the moon. Overnight the white sands of the parrotfish were running out. Here went the poles, melting, and here, at last, went paradise. The writing got us everything all of a sudden, then nothing forever."