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Around 1850, entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre called “dough of the dead” the limestone strata of fossilized shells on which we build our cities. It may be thought that, one day, a civilization will flourish on a layer of sediments composed of debris of human beings. A way for our species to move on to posterity. — Sylvain Tesson, A very slight oscillation, p 153. |