Douglas Coupland Quotes

I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.

Douglas Coupland

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• I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Earth