QQC 1

 "If you wish to be around for billions of years, you must be as fickle as the atoms who made you. You must be prepared to change everything about yourself-shape, size, color, species affiliation, everything-and to do so repeatedly."This excerpt from Bryson Chapter 1 really caught my attention. By stating this, the author is coming from a viewpoint that almost questions the notion of death itself. He is saying that you will never ever really vanish, the atoms that you are made of will simply decompose and their energy will transfer to create something else. Although this notion is as scientific as it gets, there are several religions that in a way believe this very same thing.
I also thought it was interesting that the author writes "if you wish to be around..you must be prepared to change everything about yourself." This is not something that will happen if you wish for it to happen, it is not something that you have any sort of control over. Changing your shape, size, color, and species affiliation is not something that you can prepare yourself for, nor something that you have any sort of awareness of.