Every rock we touch is the emissary of timescales we cannot begin to comprehend without confronting our own transience, and yet radiating from it is also the quiet assurance that the world goes on and on, that we are part of something vast and magnificent, that beneath all the tumult and turmoil of our human lives there is a steadfast continuity that anchors life to eternity.
A Stone Is a Story: An Illustrated Love Letter to Deep Time and Earth’s Memory
Published on November 14, 2023 15:34