Tao Te Ching

“Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into wars, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves…. They exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
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— Lewis Thomas 1913 – 1993 CE
Gestaltist of science and art
from On Societies as Organisms (1974)