Animals, plants, organisms, rocks, water, air, and you.

From the moment we are born, it is all alien to us.

Then adults will aim to familiarize us with this place, first through feelings and then through language, so that we will believe it's "our" home.

But we came here many millions of years later, many many years after it was someone else's home. After it was trees' home. After it was insects' home. After it was Neanderthals' home. Now it's our home. For now anyway...or so they say.

Animals, plants, organisms, rocks, water, air, and you.

From the moment we are born, it is all alien to us.

Then adults will aim to familiarize us with this place, first through feelings and then through language, so that we will believe it's "our" home.

But we came here many millions of years later, many many years after it was someone else's home. After it was trees' home. After it was insects' home. After it was Neanderthals' home. Now it's our home. For now anyway...