This reminds me of the opening to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: >Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake coming down fro

This reminds me of the opening to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: >Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place, and some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no-one should ever have left the oceans.