Microscope is... - Mites of Moths and Butterflies(1975)

The magic of the microscope is not that it makes little creatures larger, but that it makes a large one smaller. We are too big for our world. The microscope takes us down from our proud and lonely immensity and makes us, for a time, fellow citizens with the great majority of living things. It lets us share with them the strange and beautiful world where a meter amounts to a mile and yesterday was years ago.

     - 'Mites of Moths and Butterflies' 中 (Asher E. Treat, 1975, Cornell Univ. Press)

* 이 구절은 Olivia Judson의 'Pineapple Dreams (2008.03.18)'에서 인용됐다.