Ohhh, that reminds me of one of my very favorite lines of poetry, actually, by C.S. Lewis, The Meteorite: All that is Earth has once been sky. I am not especially enamoured of the rest of the poem, but that one line, oh man, it just sounds for me.

Also, apes are amazing and there's nothing degrading about being related to them! I am much more upset about being related to several terrible specimens of humanity than I ever would be about knowing my own evolutionary history, about how our particular species split off and reacted differently to enviromental conditions, stood upright and started speaking. When you think about all the tiny infintesimal chances that lined up from the survival of the ancestor of all Chordates, Pikaia, to a branch of hominoids becoming bipedal, how is that not absolutely amazing and a miracle in its own way? THE WORLD IS A BRILLIANT, BEAUTIFUL, CRAZY PLACE. LET'S ALL JUST REVEL IN IT.