We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination
and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one.
Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the
shouts.
-- Ray Bradbury, "G.B.S. - Mark V"
Life is to the universe as rust is to iron.
We are in the final judgement (on a planetary scale, certainly), nothing more
than an advanced form of corrosion, just one more way for the universe to wear
itself out a little faster....