Vonnegut's [famous?] last words

[Karlin]

The last lines that Kurt Vonnegut wrote, in his last book:

When the last living thing
Has died on account of us,
How poetical it would be
If Earth could say,
In a voice floating up
Perhaps
From the floor
Of the Grand Canyon,
"It is done."
People did not like it here.

 

[Unforgiven]

Yes we sure think a lot of ourselves. Long after we're dust as a species, the world will keep on keeping on just as it did for millions of years before we turned up. And as I've said here before, 99.9% of all species of creatures that have ever lived on this planet, are now dead.

Yet look at all the life still slinking through slimey seas and scuttling about from rock to rock, or communiting to and from work, if you will.

That we could possibly end all life on this planet just goes to show just how over inflated our ego really is.