“The actual reason that humans adore babies and very young creatures is as shocking as it is unnoticed: organisms that are newly-embodied radiate the energies and memories of their origin. They are, in a sense, still half-alien. Or half-angel. Or both and more. And we recognize this, fundamentally, in ways we cannot ourselves explain.

Life can be ‘born’ on any world in the universe. Before it is a frog or a kestrel, an organism is Life itself. The being within is adjusting to incarnation. On whatever world, and in whatever situation it arises. As an oak tree, or an octopus. A beehive or a human. First, we are Life. It’s histories, families and origins. Life’s natures are our natures. We belong more to Life than humanity. We belong to the living places and the ecologies… not merely of Earth, but of the Universe.

Those other organisms? That’s not them. It’s us.

And the young creatures… remember this to us.”

— an anonymous informant