# A fragile, living skin

By [Compossible - that which can live together](https://paragraph.com/@compossible) · 2025-01-28

ethics, life, fragile, gaia, freedom

---

> "Just, for a moment, meditate on the extraordinary improbability: a raw and tiny rock, hurtling through the heavens whilst growing a fragile, living skin; and that skin deciphering how to join the fiery firmament, how to leap between the stars … reaching out towards infinity… ∞
> 
> If we must talk of freedom, let us talk about that world. 
> 
> For that is the world we live in, if we could but see it.

Pink-Howitt, Peter. Ethics of Life: freedom & diversity (p. 161). (Function). Kindle Edition.

[

Ethics of Life: freedom & diversity
-----------------------------------

Ethics of Life: freedom & diversity - Kindle edition by Pink-Howitt, Peter. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Ethics of Life: freedom & diversity.

https://www.amazon.com

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/a0622c7fe1d6efe54e5651afc167cad5.jpg)

](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DTV53813)

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/f3255308eea2931f0f10b91b896f9eff.jpg)

A tree on a rock waving to the whole universe AI Van Gogh style painting

---

*Originally published on [Compossible - that which can live together](https://paragraph.com/@compossible/a-fragile-living-skin)*