we will take our exterminations to a certain point — -and then no more beyond that

we think of ourselves as the dominant species, but we are not.

Microbial life controls planetary life. Microbial life is unaware that we exist, if we vanish they would not be aware. If they vanish, humankind would be dead in a week.

Which then, is the dominant species…us or them?

To them we are no more than mines and prairies.