On Societies as Organisms

In this article Lewis Thomas begins to compare the abilities of an insect to the abilities of a human.Many insects are looked down upon as pests and unnecessary creatures of the earth.In reality insects are an important part of our world who are capable of things humans aren't capable of. Lewis specifically uses termites in comparison to humans to prove that both have similar behavior but both are extremely different and unique. "...Insects are like creature from another planet,that their behavior is absolutely foreign, totally unhuman,unearthly, almost unbiological. They are more like perfectly tooled but crazy little machines, and we violate science when we try to read human meanings in their arrangements." Organisms have different abilities in different circumstances and the earth helps make a home that can benefit the world in return.