He was a writer taking poetic license, all we find poven here is that you don't know the difference. It follows often that "Art" imitates life, we see beauty in various forms of expression in the brilliant patterns of nature. There is an "intelligence" to all that lives of course, in that sense life seeks to preserve itself, a pattern of behavior that would trace back to single celled bacteria, from there on up. (a long long time)
The cell seeks to preserve itself in the very act of procreating & self replication, this translates on up to the instinct for survival, self preservation of all creature's behaviors, thru natural selection as one major mechanism, but traces all the way back innate to most primitive life itself. ( which starts to become 1rst colonial, then comes multicellular) |
