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Bacteria, viruses, fungi, plants, animals: they are all one and the same life. Each species, including the human species, is the metamorphosis of all those that preceded it – the same life, cobbling together a new body and a new form in order to exist differently. And there is no opposition between the living and the non-living: life is always the reincarnation of the non-living, a carnival of the telluric substance of a planet – the Earth – that continually draws new faces and new ways of being out of even the smallest particle of its disparate body.   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Bajo el cielo y las nubes, mezcl ndose con el agua y el viento, su existencia es una interminable contemplaci n c smica. Este libro se sit a desde su punto de vista - el de las hojas, las ra ces y las flores - para comprender el mundo ya no como un espacio universal que contiene todas las cosas, sino m s bien como la atm sfera general, el clima, un lugar de verdadera mixtura metaf sica. 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