Think about multicellularity on this Earth. Every living thing originally came from bacteria. So, who do you think made up the rules for how to perform collective behaviors? It had to be the bacteria.

What's great about bacteria is you have a surprise every day waiting for you because they're so fast, they grow overnight.

Bacteria mineralized the rocks; they deposited the iron. They made the geology we see.

You live in intimate association with bacteria, and you couldn't survive without them.

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

Most bacteria aren't bad. We breathe and eat and ingest gobs of bacteria every single moment of our lives. Our food is covered in bacteria. And you're breathing in bacteria all the time, and you mostly don't get sick.