the reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion, or his aid to your benevolent design, is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because, though you think you have it, he feels that you have it not. you have not given him the authentic sign. -emerson
a census of small creatures living in some of the "worst" conditions imaginable. i add those quotations because, obviously, these organisms would disagree.