Murchie, Guy
Guy Murchie is a teacher, pilot, newspaperman, lecturer, photographer, and world traveler. He is also the author of Men on the Horizon, Song of the Sky and Music of the Spheres.

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. . . I seek to scrutinize the earth and her creatures down to their deepest marrow, to sense through their senses, read from their minds, pulse with their heartbeats &endash; finally tune in, so far as I am allowed, to their profoundest spiritual potentialities. The Seven Mysteries of Life, 1978.

A gene is one step in the secret recipe for growing up, for living. It is a wave of the unseen wand that turns a tadpole into a frog, a caterpillar into a butterfly. It is a basic unit of heredity. Ibid.

Genetics is a science that, ever since Mendel struck the light, has been rapidly developing into what is probably the most complex if not the most baffling of biology's many branches. Ibid.

In some sense, I have little doubt, genes know what they are doing, for they are memory incarnate, letters of living purpose, the script of life in a material universe. Ibid.

When you look at a planet whole, from outside, for the first time, certain things come clear that you never could be quite sure of before. One is a persistent feeling that all the inhabitants of that world must be related. Ibid.