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What stuck with me about today's discussion was one of the final comments, about how our relation to every living thing is much more evident when you look at it from a bigger perspective. When we look at the small area in which we live or even at our country, it is hard to relate ourselves to the simplest little organisms (like bacteria). From such a close view of life, all the species seem so different and distinctive. On the other hand, when you look at the Earth as a planet in the much larger universe, that may or may not contain other "life", we seem much more related to other living things. It is much easier to see a kinship to something we'd normally view as having no connection to us when we look at living things from a universal perspective. Again, its all relative, but living things are much easier (for me) to clump together and relate to when I look at our planet in perspective of the other planets and universe.