"Wind back the tape of life to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting point, and the chance becomes vanishingly small that anything like human intelligence would grace the replay." - Stephen Jay Gould, Paleontologist.

From Keuhls, Thom. “Beyond Sovereign Territory: The Space of Ecopolitics.”

So interesting to wrap ones mind around this concept— nature is not clockwork. Time is not a ‘linearly progressive element’. The presence of humans on this planet is not deterministic. Time is contingent, a chaotic element, without order or regularity. Wow.