"You are literally never alone. While there are roughly 6.7 billion people on Earth, you may not feel that many of them at all care very much about your existence. But within your colon alone are living at least 1012 billion organisms, or roughly a thousand times the number of people on the planet. Stop your metabolic processes, and you stop theirs."

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Eliot Schrefer is an American author known for young adult and adult fiction, including Endangered and Threatened. His writing frequently focuses on conservation themes and human-animal relationships.

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